More Earthbag Houses in Malawi

We’ve published several blog posts about earthbag houses in Malawai over the years. The big news in this most recent story is an NGO has created a fund for ongoing construction of earthbag houses in flood prone areas. They’ve realized a certain number of houses built of light weight materials are destroyed every year by floods, so now they have created a fund to rebuild some of them with earthbags.

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Earthbag Building Gains Code Approval in Nepal!

Earthbag building is now an approved building method in Nepal
Earthbag building is now an approved building method in Nepal

“Good Earth Nepal has achieved a huge BREAKTHROUGH! One and a half years of lobbying and multiple presentations to government engineering and technical boards have resulted in the APPROVAL and PUBLICATION of our Earthbag Design and protocols by Nepal’s Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC).

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Grassroots Movement Building Earthbag Schools in Nepal

Earthbag school built by volunteers with Good Earth Nepal in Nuwakot, Nepal
Earthbag school built by volunteers with Good Earth Nepal in Nuwakot, Nepal

In collaboration with Good Earth Nepal.org and donations from the Schoeck Family Foundation, we’ve been touring earthbag projects near Kathmandu. We’ve seen numerous earthbag schools in our travels, but haven’t noticed any new conventionally built RCC/brick schools.

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