"...overall I am really pleased with the plinth beam...Everyone is raving about what a great foundation it is and how they have never seen anything like it but they will copy it if they can! That was exciting. Then we started laying the bricks! We worked with Julius (the concrete contractor) and he agreed that we should only employ a few people today and go slowly to make sure to get it right, so we did five courses on three of the interior walls and two courses on the other two interior walls and it was amazing. The bricks look beautiful and there was such a sense of excitement as people began to see what the building will be like."
The Roche Health Center is a zero-energy health center being constructed by local villagers using no power tools in rural Tanzania. This project is being developed by the Village Life Outreach Project (www.villagelifeoutreach.org) and the Shirati Health, Education and Development Foundation in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design. To find out more or to donate, go to www.villagelifeoutreach.org
Monday, July 5, 2010
Laying the ISSB on the plinth beam
"...overall I am really pleased with the plinth beam...Everyone is raving about what a great foundation it is and how they have never seen anything like it but they will copy it if they can! That was exciting. Then we started laying the bricks! We worked with Julius (the concrete contractor) and he agreed that we should only employ a few people today and go slowly to make sure to get it right, so we did five courses on three of the interior walls and two courses on the other two interior walls and it was amazing. The bricks look beautiful and there was such a sense of excitement as people began to see what the building will be like."
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