Saturday 15 November 2014

Day one of block building and training - A house for a victim - Ntrama, Rwanda

The Makiga Block press is up and running

Interlocking soil stabilised blocks - pushed up and out the block machine

we testing various earth, lime, ash, oil and water mixes

setting up a system meaning the earth gets dug, sieved, mixed, watered, and loaded in a sequence to save time

setting the site, building a shelter next to the foundation which we have dug, so the travelling distances are kept to a minimum, the sheet on the  far wall low wall is facing the prevailing wind direction to protect blocks from worst weather

view from top of site, looking over existing house left and new build centre and block making shelter.

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