In this blog I discuss earth-bag construction as an option for shelter recovery in Nepal. I start off with a quick overview of how the humanitarian coordination is going with the relevant links to access this info for those people unfamiliar with the system. So skip down a bit if you want to get straight to the earthbag issues, links, etc.
An earth bag school under construction in Nepal, before the earthquake. This one, a school, built by the local community with design and training help from Edge of Seven, others shown below. Critical points are: these are extremely earthquake resilient, energy efficient and require a fraction of the logistics of importing bricks and cement up the damaged roads, etc. |