Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries ...

Rammed earth construction has a lot of eco-friendly benefits, including less mold, ... which takes up to 12 hours for heat to penetrate to the interior. Furthermore, ...

The rammed earth walls reduce solar heat gain and maintain a temperature of 7-10 degrees cooler than the outdoors. Related: A home that incorporates recycled materials from the job site ...

Interior rammed earth walls will remain exposed, but can be treated like any concrete walls that require masonry nails or screws when it comes to hanging pictures.

Move over marble, push off paint and polished plaster: this year’s hottest new interior trend is rammed earth. London’s smartest stores, restaurants, offices and homes are shoring themselves ...

And, rammed earth has good thermal mass, providing not only good insulation, but actually cooling the interior over the course of the day and heating during the night. (Think caves and churches.) ...

The team created 40-cm (15.75-inch)-thick rammed earth walls to complete the home, providing an ideal thermal envelope to maintain comfortable interior temperatures all year round.

BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

A Hacienda-style Sonoma home constructed of rammed-earth — rendering it fireproof and allowing the interior temperature to remain cool throughout the summer without air conditioning — is for ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

From a "rammed earth" house in Jones, to a made-over classic mid-century modern home in Oklahoma City's Edgemere Heights, to a vintage Bricktown warehouse married to a 1940s Quonset hut, this year ...

Designed by the San Antonio-based firm, Lake Flato Architects, the 7,850-square-foot, one-level, Z-shaped home lists for $9.5 million. Its unique design blends the natural landscape into the ...