26-02-2013, 12:50 PM
GREEN BUILDING BY SUPERADOBE TECHNOLOGY
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INTRODUCTION
Form of earth bag construction
Sand bag and barbed wire technology
Developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili in 1984
MATERIALS
1. Bags may be polypropylene, or burlap
2.Fill material may be earth or sand, cement or lime, clay and gravel
3.Barbed wire and regular wire
4.Wheel barrow
5. Mechanical pumps
6.Compass
7.Additional materials are tampers, water, shovel, nails, scissors, woods or metal or pipes & small buckets or coffee cans
SERVICEABILITY CONSIDERATIONS
Floor of a Superadobe building is usually finished last
so that plumbing and electrical lines can be run underneath
Plumbing pipes are placed on, in, or under the lower Superadobe layers and run vertically through small channels cut in to the walls
Electrical lines are run through flexible conduit that follows the contours of the bags
[attachment=51878]
INTRODUCTION
Form of earth bag construction
Sand bag and barbed wire technology
Developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili in 1984
MATERIALS
1. Bags may be polypropylene, or burlap
2.Fill material may be earth or sand, cement or lime, clay and gravel
3.Barbed wire and regular wire
4.Wheel barrow
5. Mechanical pumps
6.Compass
7.Additional materials are tampers, water, shovel, nails, scissors, woods or metal or pipes & small buckets or coffee cans
SERVICEABILITY CONSIDERATIONS
Floor of a Superadobe building is usually finished last
so that plumbing and electrical lines can be run underneath
Plumbing pipes are placed on, in, or under the lower Superadobe layers and run vertically through small channels cut in to the walls
Electrical lines are run through flexible conduit that follows the contours of the bags