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How to Choose a Plaster System, part 2

How to Choose a Plaster System, part 2

This is the second article in a four part series explaining all of the issues surrounding the choice of a plaster system on straw bale walls…
In the first article of this series we were introduced to a list of parameters that we would use when choosing a plaster system.  This article will focus on the [...]

How to Choose a Plaster System, part 1

How to Choose a Plaster System, part 1

This is the first article in a four part series explaining all of the issues surrounding the choice of a plaster system on straw bale walls…
One common system used on all types of “green” buildings is plaster as a wall cladding and finish system. Whether your building is adobe, straw bale, rammed earth, straw-clay [...]

New Rammed Earth Commercial Building in New Mexico

New Rammed Earth Commercial Building in New Mexico

New Mexico Business Weekly is reporting on New Mexico’s first large rammed-earth commercial building which opened in Santa Fe this week.
The building is owned by The Public Employees Retirement Association and will hold 500 employees.  The size of the structure is approximately 30,000 square feet.
This was Lockwood Construction’s first rammed earth project.  They seem to [...]