Standard Code of Practice for Rammed Earth Structures
Based on the book Rammed Earth Structures: a Code of
Practice PDF 1.1Mb
This Code of Practice started out as a Practical Action Publication
in 1996, was taken through a four year Technical Committee process by
the Standards Association of Zimbabwe before being published there as
a National Standard in 2001. Following the Southern African Development Community the harmonising across their 15 country region the African Regional Standards
Organisation began work on producing it as an ARS, or African Regional Standard
in 2014. In 2016 the African Regional Standard for Rammed Earth
Structures was unanimously voted in to a continent of 1.2bn people.
The Code is both practical and exacting, giving valuable advice to
builders, contractors, funders and regulators. The existence of a
Standard tends to drive standards up while their absence does the
opposite, allowing both practice and prices to fall, a scenario all
too common in African earth building as it is around the world. |
