Cob: Correction Re: intro

[billc_lists at greenbuilder.com]

Correction!

That's http://www.dcat.NET !  The .org is The Drug, Chemical & Allied 
Trades Association, definitely NOT what you're looking for!

>Hi Layth,
>
>You should get in touch with the folks at DCAT- the Development 
>Center for Alternative Technology (http://www.dcat.org).  They're 
>working with the national building code team that's putting together 
>a model code for earthen construction.  You could tap into some very 
>good minds there, and possibly help that project along too.
>
>They are very busy folks and have lost a lot of their funding due to 
>the recent belt-tightening, but they're very dedicated to this kind 
>of thing.
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>   My name is Layth, I have joined this list about 2 years ago, and 
>>I have been reading all the interesting and informative emails to 
>>the list. I am a graduate architecture student, doing my thesis. 
>>Since I do not have the structural engineering background, I was 
>>not able (or allowed) to have a thesis about the structural 
>>stability of earth buildings in earthquake areas.  I took a break 
>>after that disappointment and returned to my graduate study this 
>>January.  Now I have a new thesis, and it describes three kinds of 
>>earth buildings, there properties, there applications, and the 
>>obstacles that are keeping these buildings from the main stream. I 
>>was hoping that some from this list might help me with some things. 
>>Especially people who already are living in Cob or other earthen 
>>house.  My only hands on experience with cob was when I built a 
>>small seed propagation sort of green house.  It was 8'X4'X2.5' with 
>>a glass top , The outside was not plastered, and the structure 
>>stood directly on the ground (a no no I guess).  I just did it with 
>>what I had and I did not have enough stones to make the building be 
>>off the ground. The walls where 8"-1'   thick.  And it had sprayers 
>>on the inside to water the seed beds.  That structure has been 
>>standing now for three years with the only problem of ANTS starting 
>>to borrow into the cob walls!!
>>   Well I just wanted to introduce myself and hope for your help in 
>>the coming weeks.
>>
>>Layth
>
>
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