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Rammed Earth Living

Capture the timeless beauty of rammed earth living.  Used by the ancients many thousands of years ago rammed earth continues to live up to its reputation through the centuries as an environmentally sustainable and thermally efficient construction method when combined with correct solar-passive design principles.

Located in the Perth Hills of Western Australia, Rammed Earth Living is both an environmental building design studio and complete home builder.  We feature the use of rammed earth both on its own and in combination with other environmentally sustainable materials to design creative and stunning solar-passive energy-efficient rammed earth homes.

Your own design or ours, we build new homes, cottages and studios in the Perth metro, hills and even some country areas of Western Australia.  We even do commercial projects from time to time so please don't hesitate to ask.

Each of our rammed earth homes is designed with solar passive and feng shui design principles in mind.  We assess your building site and take all environmental factors into consideration when designing your home.  This allows us to create a home which will not only look sensational, but is completely in harmony with the energy of your building site and the home's surroundings.  We are passionate about the use of rammed earth in creating your ideal sustainable, energy efficient solar-passive home.

Rammed Earth Living - a quality rammed earth builder and environmental building designer - creating beautiful rammed earth homes.

 

Workshop - The Sustainable House - Design, Siting, Building

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Workshop "The Sustainable House - Design, Siting, Building"

Eco-architect and international teacher Peter Cowman, founder of The Living Architecture Centre
www.livingarchitecturecentre.com

On Saturday October 3rd a group of 20 people enjoyed the peaceful surroundings of the Gidgegannup Recreation Centre while learning many things about sustainable home design.
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Building Your Own Wind Turbine

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NEW!
5-Day Workshop "Building Your Own Wind Turbine"

March 2011 Gidgegannup, Western Australia.

Presented by Rammed Earth Living, renowned environmentalists Jim and Miriam from Eirbyte Renewable Energy in Ireland show you how to build your own 2.4m wind turbine using only basic tools. This is a marvellous opportunity for Western Austrralia to have presenters of this calibre here to deliver such an exciting hands-on workshop.

Register your interest
Email us using the contact page to register your interest and be notified when enrolments open. This course is strictly limited to a maximum of 15 places only and will fill up quickly.

See Jim and Mirams' website at www.eirbyte.com

Learn more about the wind turbine workshops at http://www.buildyourownwindturbine.com/

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Training Courses

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Course Schedule for 2010

We have an exciting range of training workshops scheduled for 2010.  Dates will be scheduled dependant on demand, so please don't hesitate to contact us to register your interest. (no obligation)

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Workers Wanted

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Positions vacant - one of our quality rammed earth builders is looking for workers for up-coming projects.  If you are fit and active, have a love of working outdoors and would like to learn how to build rammed earth walls "from the ground up", Rammed Earth Alternatives would like to hear from you.  Learn rammed earth building on the job as you help to construct environmentally friendly and sustainable solar passive homes in the Perth metro and outer hills areas.

Projects can be either single or double storey, and typically range from 1 - 2 months duration each depending on the scope of work.

This is a unique opportunity - if you would like to "make the team" give Jens Jacobsen at Rammed Earth Alternatives a call on 0438-374-817 to arrange an interview.

 

Last Updated on Monday, 15 March 2010 05:46