A ferrocement door is easy to manufacture, the prefabricated door is strong and durable, is resistant against water and requires little maintenance afterwards. Auroville Building Centre has been using...

While ferrocement was first used about 150 years ago and was brought to an advanced level about 50 years ago. It is only recently beginning to be used in common practice. In general, this is because, ...

The Auroville Earth Institute is researching, developing, promoting and transferring earth-based technologies, which are cost and energy effective. These technologies are disseminated through training...

Appropriate and sustainable development require first resources management. It is possible to use a natural resource with much respect for our Mother Earth and to develop a habitat in a harmonious and...

Stabilized Compressed Earth Blocks is a construction material formed in a mechanical press. They are made out of a mix of soil, sand and stabilizing agents like lime or cement.      

Disaster resistance of buildings is not only related to building materials and technologies but to proper design and well built structures. Earth, as a building material, can be used for creating mode...

Raw earth as a building material is nearly as old as mankind itself.  It saw it’s renaissance in the middle of the last century. CSEB has been a major tool for the renaissance of earth architecture...

Raw earth for building has been used worldwide for millennia but, during the 20th century, most of the skills of earth builders were lost and building with earth became marginal. The new development w...

Ecological construction is a way of building that reduces resource consumption and the impact on ecological systems, and creates products and environments that are beneficial to human health and longe...

To create a sustainable Human Settlement means not only to build and design green but to create communities that provide the environment that allows people to flourish in the presence of each other. ...