"Rammit Yourself" Workshops

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Each "Rammit Yourself" workshop covers soil selection and testing; forming walls and corners; installing electricity, plumbing, and window/door block-outs; mixing and tamping the dirt; and stripping forms.

Workshops also include instruction in designing and building with rammed earth, including technical data and supervised hands-on experience constructing a wall.

Curriculum includes:

• Forming a rammed earth wall with modular forms and embedded insulation.
• Installing electrical outlet boxes and conduit.
• Hanging OSHA-approved scaffolding from the forming system.
• Comparing rammed earth reinforced with rebar versus post-tensioning rods.
• Writing specifications for stabilized and water-resistant rammed earth.
• Making rammed earth test cylinders using ASTM standards.
• Mixing, placing within forms, and tamping dirt.
• Stripping forms from finished wall.
• Designing headers, bond beams and roof-attachments.
• Maintaining tampers.
• Evaluating soils and house plans brought by attendees.
  

Participants may bring half-full 5-gallon buckets of any soil they might want to use for building. This will be tamped into regulation-formed cylinders for later testing at soils labs in participant's home towns.