[GSBN] ASTM Standard Guide for Earthen Wall Systems

[Bruce King Ecobuild]

Friends and colleagues --

I'm very happy to tell you that  ASTM International has approved  
publication of revisions to ASTM E2392, Standard Guide for Design of  
Earthen Wall Building Systems.

This has been a four year project for me and for the Ecological  
Building Network, and you helped make it happen!  This building  
standard now provides:
- prescriptive guidance for affordable seismic safety,
- engineering guidance where it is practically available, and
- discourages the use of cement, especially applied as render over  
earthen walls.

Various industries tried to stop this project, and it has been a  
sometimes weird experience, but we are now done.  It has taken four  
years but was worth it, for we now have a document that we can work  
with anywhere in the world.

If you already have a draft from any time in the past two years, then  
you have something pretty close to the final language.  If you want  
the formal document, you must order it from ASTM International, where  
it will be ready with all final edits by late January.  Upon request,  
ASTM will also translate it for any country holding a memorandum of  
understanding with ASTM (which is most countries).  http://www.astm.org/index.shtml

Thanks, and warm greetings from cool California,

Bruce King
(415) 987-7271
bruce-king.com

You like green materials?
Come to Build Well 2010:
  http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/symposium/



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