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Adobe Composition of adobe: An adobe brick is made of clay mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung. The soil composition typically ...more American Clay Earth Plaster American Clay Earth Plasters are a natural, environmentally friendly way to finish interiors. Non-toxic and made in the USA, these plasters are an ...more AmeriPolish Concrete Dye AmeriPolish is a translucent dye that is formulated using extremely fine molecules of color designed to penetrate and color any cementitious surface. ...more Cob Cob is an old method of building with earth and straw or other fibers. It is similar to adobe in that the basic mix of clay and sand is the same, but ...more Element By Hycrete Hycrete’s Element is an admixture that integrally waterproofs concrete used in commercial construction. Certified to Cradle-to-Cradle by McDonough ...more FibreC Reinforced Concrete FibreC is a lightweight, high-performance concrete that requires no steel reinforcement. A special extrusion process incorporates layers of ...more Flyash Power plants that burn coal account for more than half of the electricity produced in the United States. These power plants also produce residual ...more Luminescent Gravel Luminescent Gravel is integrated into concrete flooring to enhance emergency-exit signage within a building. The particles can be masked and evenly ...more Pise (Pneumatically Impacted Stabilized Earth) Builder David Easton recently developed a new, less labor-intensive way of creating a rammed-earth-type home. The process is called Pneumatically ...more Rammed Earth Using it involves a process of compressing a damp mixture of earth that has suitable proportions of sand, gravel and clay (sometimes with an added ...more Stucco Stucco is a durable exterior wall covering consisting of cement, lime, and silica applied in several layers over wood or metal lath. Since these ...more Tabby Cement Tabby is a building material consisting of lime, sand, water, and crushed oyster shells. It was made and used on the Sea Islands of coastal South ...more

 

 

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