This Rammed-Earth Home Lasts 500 Years. Why Is It Banned in USA?

It is not banned. I would rather spend twenty-five minutes on the real reasons than on a satisfying one that happens to be wrong. Rammed earth has stood for eight hundred years in Spain and it is being built with permits in New Mexico right now. What stands between you and one is eight specific obstacles, and every one of them is real: no chapter in the prescriptive code, the engineer's stamp, the energy code and its insulation number, seismic reinforcement, moisture detailing, the labour and the formwork, the appraiser with no comparable sales, and insurance. Also covered: soil selection, wall thickness, stabilised versus unstabilised, where in the country this is comparatively easy, and the one phone call to make before you buy land. The Owner-Built Home is linked on the channel description. If you have built with earth in this country, tell us which jurisdiction and what plan review was actually like. rammed earth, earthen construction, natural building, building code, owner builder, off grid home, adobe, sustainable building, thermal mass, alternative construction