Evaluation of Earth Building Tools in Construction (EBTC) in earth architecture and earth buildings

Hamed Niroumand, Juan Antonio Barcelo, Charles J. Kibert and Maryam Saaly

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017, vol. 70, issue C, 861-866

Abstract: For many years, Earth itself has been the most tried and tested natural construction material that can also be used to construct modern sustainable buildings in combination with modern methods. Due to the shortage of attempts at merging earth architecture and earth building, the foundation of this study has been provided. The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the requirements of earth architecture and earth buildings. The current survey is aimed at evaluation of Earth Building Tools in Construction (EBTC) as a new tool for development of earth architecture and earth buildings. All required data were amassed by online questionnaires in the six countries which are evaluated in this study. Based on various aspects of the existing researches, literature review and consulting with few senior architects and researchers, the questionnaires were filled out. A comparison has been made between the responses of ICOMOS members of these six countries. Upon completion the 763 survey responses were compared, which approximated a confidence interval of 95% and a margin of error of ±5%. By the analysis of all responses, it was indicated that an average of 82% of the respondents found a lack of national codes and guidelines in all countries. Results presented in this study could be applied for the development of earth buildings and earth architecture, since having earth building tools in construction of earth buildings is an integral parts of its development.

Keywords: Earth building; Earth architecture; EBTC; ICOMOS; Questionnaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.267

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