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Multi-Storey Rammed Earth Construction

Reducing the use of concrete and other CO2-heavy building materials in construction by reintroducing the use of clay soil structures, could lead to a considerable reduction in the construction industry’s current CO2 emissions. For such a development to take place, however, it requires the development of new methods that enables us to construct multi-storey buildings in clay soil. We have historical examples of multi-storey buildings with a load bearing system of rammed earth, but despite the fact that we are experiencing a great interest and development of the field today, we still miss examples of newly erected multi-storey buildings, where the load bearing structure is made from non-stabilized rammed earth. Therefore, with this project, we want to investigate whether rammed earth construction can be used to build multi-storey buildings in an urban Danish context.

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Contributors

J. Jeppesen
N. Brix
J. Johansson
L. K. Nielsen

Kea – Copenhagen School of Design and Technology & Egen vinding og datter
Denmark

Presented at ICSA2022, Aalborg University. Critical Practices 2022 booklet (PDF)