Photo courtesy of Martin Hammer
& Builders Without Borders
For the last 10 years Ecological Building Network (EBNet) has been developing and publishing earthen building standards to help create affordable, appropriate, earthquake-safe housing. These earthen homes can be built as part of a planned community, or in response to natural disasters. In either case, earthen homes use readily available materials and local labor to build safe housing quickly and cheaply. Now EBNet has been asked to adapt those standards for safe housing in Haiti, before the rainy season.