Earth Building
Project Partner: Kunming University of Science and Technology
Project Information:
- There are more than 1,000 Yi immigrants who are living in remote mountainous towns and villages.
- Their earth houses are in poor condition and the structure was damaged.
- Target to build demonstration projects to encourage these people to build their houses by using anti-seismic rammed earth construction methods.
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Progress:
Dec 2023 - One earth house was completed and accepted for inspection. A total of 7 earth houses were completed the main construction phase.
Sep 2023 - Main construction of 6 houses were completed.
May 2023 - The team started to build another 8 rammed earth houses and expected to complete the project by Jan 2023.
Jul 2021 - Completion of all construction work
Apr 2021 - Commencement of foundation work for 5 households
