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Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

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Stephen Betzen · Tuesday, 13 December 2011 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

Thank you all for keeping up with our progress. The blog posts will come long after they are completed, this is partially for security of the site as well as to give us time to write the post. I would love to start right in on…

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Stephen Betzen · Thursday, 22 December 2011 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

Some of the negatives of building anything is that there is a footprint. We tried looking as many locations for the building and the one we settled on happens to cover 2 beautiful cedar trees. This location was the best location…

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Bill Betzen · Monday, 26 December 2011 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

These are photos of the first rammed earth construction in Dallas. These structures are for an entryway and…

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Bill Betzen · Monday, 16 January 2012 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

On 1-14-12 I drove with a good friend to show him the rammed earth work that was already happening in Dallas. We drove to the work being done at the facility just east of the Walnut Hill Lane Dart station. As we looked over the…

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Stephen Betzen · Saturday, 21 January 2012 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

Unfortunately This project has been put on hold once again. The city shut us down... but the good part is that it had nothing to do with it being rammed earth. They stopped the project because they said we could not have another…

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