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	Rammed Earth and Earth Sheltering
		The building prototypes chosen are a rammed earth house, and an earth sheltered concrete block house.
		If the comfort level is the same for a rammed earth house as compared to a wood-frame insulated house, then the deciding factors should be the embodied energy, and the environmental degradation of the operation of each.
		If simple local materials such as earth can be used to construct a house, and the materials allow the house to cool naturally without mechanical aid, then the house requires minimal assistance and promotes minimal utility pollution from power plants.
	www.solar783.com /solar783/RESheltering.htm (524 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earth sheltering
		Earth sheltering is the architectural practice of using earth for external thermal mass against building walls.
		Thus, at the base of a deep earth berm, the house is heated against an exterior temperature gradient of perhaps ten to fifteen degrees, instead of against a steeper temperature grade where air is on the outside of the wall instead of earth.
		Earth sheltering is often combined with solar heating system since the soil temperature in most areas is below 74 degrees Fahrenheit (23.3 degrees Celsius) which humans feel most comfortable as an annual average temperature.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Earth_sheltering (799 words)

	The Underground House - Background Information
		Earth sheltering basically means covering a building with a layer of earth which acts as a kind of blanket.
		The easiest method of earth sheltering is to build into a hillside, so that three sides and the roof of a building are covered over.
		This is an international problem and was discussed at the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, resulting in a number of agreed statements of principles governing the environment and development, which incorporated the concept of sustainability.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/phil_reddy/BackgroundInformation.htm (1306 words)

	B.E.S.A - British Earth Sheltering Association - An Introduction
		Earth Sheltering basically means covering a building with a layer of earth which acts as a kind of blanket.
		Earth sheltering may cost a little more initially, but there are big savings in the long term.
		Most importantly earth sheltering means working with nature, either by covering the building in earth, so that the roof can be turned into a garden, or by sinking the main structure below the skyline so that the landscape above is unspoiled.
	www.besa-uk.org /intro.html (412 words)

	Homebuilding & Renovating Online
		Often confused with buildings made from earth, earth sheltered building is in fact a construction method which partially buries the building into the ground.
		The earth covered elements of the building (roof, rear and side walls) are protected by a tough, durable, waterproof membrane which should stop moisture migrating through to the inside.
		The earth covering is often claimed to be an extra insulation layer, but in fact earth is not a particularly good insulator.
	www.homebuilding.co.uk /Product.Features.asp?Action=View&ID=234 (581 words)

	Earth Sheltered Technology, Inc. - Why You Should Build An Earth Sheltered Home
		Earth Sheltered Technology, Inc. has won national design and building awards over the past years, and was featured in a national magazine four years in a row.
		If you were to compare out earth sheltered home and a conventional home of the same cost and same length of mortgage you would be very surprised at the results.
		When your children, grand-children and, great-grand children inherit your earth sheltered home and find it in as good as condition as when you built it, it will be a monument to your intelligent forethought.
	www.earthshelteredtech.com /whybld.htm (1938 words)

	Troubled Times: Crumple Cautions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The only way to use a vehicle as an earth sheltered habitat would be to leave it on the surface and berm the earth around it into a sloping mound upto the bottom edge of the lowest window.
		I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but earth sheltering is a serious concept that deals with a very heavy medium (earth) that can kill without warning if you ignore the laws of its use.
		Earth sheltering is inexpensive and effective for efficient, safe housing, but must be treated with the caution it deserves.
	www.zetatalk.com /info/tinfo09l.htm (479 words)

	Sample Plans
		This is a traditional earth home "elevational" type plan, where the front side is exposed and the back side solar atrium extends out of the ground.
		This is a non-traditional, "penetrational" type of earth home plan, where the floor plan is more freeform and penetrations are utilized for light and ventilation, as needed for the actual plan.
		This is a combination of all three "basic" earth sheltering notions, the "elevational" plan, the "atrial" plan and the "penetrational" plan, with the backside window wells for light and ventilation.
	www.undergroundhomes.com /plans.htm (208 words)

	Earth Sheltered Housing and Commercial Structures - Earth Sheltered Home Page
		To be explained and better understood, an Earth Sheltered Dwelling is simply an age-old concept applied with today’s technology and comforts to produce a dwelling that is modern with the benefit of energy efficiency.
		Earth Sheltered, meaning, putting earth on the roof and typically the North and West sides yet built on grade.
		An Earth Sheltered home is not to be perceived or defined as an "underground" home, a converted basement, or a glorified storm/tornado shelter.
	www.piedmontcommunities.us /servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpage=page&gid=00175000000982954435768926 (485 words)

	Dream Green Homes: Earth-sheltered Styles
		About six feet under the earth, you will find that the temperature varies by only a few degrees year round.
		While this temperature might be too cool for general living comfort, you can use the stability of the earth's temperature to moderate the thermal fluctuations of the house.
		The part of the house that is underground needs to be well insulated, or the earth will continually suck warmth out of the house.
	www.dreamgreenhomes.com /styles/earthsheltered/description.htm (268 words)

	Earth Sheltered Design-Sustainable Building Sourcebook
		Using the earth as a component of the energy system, or "earth-tempering," can be accomplished through three primary methods: direct, indirect, and isolated.
		In the direct system, the building envelope is in contact with the earth, and conduction through the building elements (primarily walls and floor) regulates the interior temperature.
		Cooler earth temperature is transferred to air brought into a house through a tube(s) buried in the ground.
	www.greenbuilder.com /sourcebook/EarthSheltered.html (1359 words)

	Earth-Sheltered Houses (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earth sheltered houses have at least 50% of wall and roof area underground.
		Earth sheltering reduces the energy needed to heat or cool the building by (1) preventing the leakage of air out of and into the building and (2) placing an insulating barrier of earth between the walls of the buildings and extreme outdoor temperatures.
		Earth sheltering does not need to result in a dark or damp environment.
	www.north-rthn.org /FactSheets/94_220.html (1399 words)

	B.E.S.A - British Earth Sheltering Association - Sod It, The Book
		Some case studies together with useful names and addresses go to make this an excellent information base from which anyone wishing to know about earth sheltering will find answers to some if not all of their questions.
		The Pickup Project was a direct result of the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 at which the British Government committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan.
		Earth sheltered development - or geotecture - has a head start over other disciplines with its huge inherent capacity for energy saving and freedom from structural maintenance.
	www.besa-uk.org /sod_it.html (262 words)

	EH Companies
		Earth Sheltered Homes-R. Smoot provides information on earth homes and some of the benefits of domes.
		Earth Sheltered Technology, inc -One of the larger sites that gives a lot of information on building your own home.
		Earth Shelters-John Hait is an expert in passive annual heat storage.
	www.earth-house.com /Green_Homes/The_Builders/EH_Companies/eh_companies.html (459 words)

	papercrete, fibercrete, fibrous concrete - Living in Paper
		For example, the earth and rocks on the site may be material you can use for building, but there may be low areas on the site, which should be avoided due to flooding.
		If earth is used, and there is a significant amount of silt or clay in it, there is a good chance the bags will wick water more readily than concrete.
		An earth floor made of adobe, or adobe mixed with papercrete instead of straw, is an alternative.
	www.livinginpaper.com /construction.htm (7359 words)

	By JOHN HAIT My first earth-sheltered house—an underground geodesic dome was partially complete when the truckload of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		sun, transfers it to the buried earth tubes where it passes some of its warmth to the relatively cool soil, and finally exhausts it outside.
		Essentially, the earth tubes act as heat exchangers: If the air in the tubes is warmer than the earth, the earth soaks up and stores the heat.
		It is very well done and, of the many earth sheltered design and construction references I have read, covers far more than any other.
	www.axwoodfarm.com /PAHS/UmbrellaHouse.html (1595 words)

	Earth Sheltered Homes Books, Plans, Videos - Rocky Mountain Research Center
		Many construction details for umbrellas; earth tubes; thermal breaks; penetrations through the umbrella; internal partitions for good air flow; drainage and waterproofing; landscaping tips; and counting the cost.
		People all over the world are calling us to ask where they can see a PAHS earth shelter.
		Arched roof cement forms are used to supplement standard basement cement forms for casting concrete earth sheltered 16 x 24 feet (4.88 x 7.31 meter) modules.
	www.earthshelters.com /Catalog.html (860 words)

	Under Ground but Not Underground SubsurfaceBuildings.com
		One of the primary advantages of earth sheltering is energy efficiency.
		Earth sheltering can be quite effective for individual residences, but it can also be used on a larger scale.
		But the most important factor in the decision to earth shelter the structure was noise--Sky Harbor Airport runways, which end less than two miles away, point directly at the school.
	www.subsurfacebuildings.com /UnderGroundbutNotUnderground.html (664 words)

	www.seccull.co.uk ~~EARTH SHELTERS & UNDERGROUND HOMES~~
		The main reasons found in textbooks for building an earth shelter are for their low running costs and reduced environmental intrusion.
		Earth sheltered houses can be created as alternatives to some conventional estates, whether they be terraced, detached, in the country, the edge of a town or in the city.
		Although the cost to build an earth sheltered house is similar to a conventional house, professional property valuers employed by financial lenders are not prepared to back these innovative styles, as their performance cannot be proven.
	freespace.virgin.net /andrew.seccull/earthsh.htm (2447 words)

	Cumbria's First Underground House
		The veterinary workspace is adjacent to the road but is cut back into the hillside, and it too is covered with earth, although the wall to the road is conventional in being faced with stone.
		Combining the shelter of the earth with high levels of insulation means that the house needs no heating whatsoever – all of the heat it needs is available from the sun alone.
		Nor can we keep using the earth’s precious and scarce resources at rates that are far higher than would be the case if they were equally distributed – as if we in the ‘developed’ world had rights that override those of other people in the world.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/phil_reddy (703 words)

	moses3
		We were intrigued with the incorporation of the earth sheltering design strategy used in the Gund-Ream Ranch House.
		Earth sheltering is a strategy that is seldom utilized due to the complexity of the structural systems (weight considerations) and difficulties in waterproffing.
		This is due, in part, to the rolling contours of the exterior earth sheltering diverting and/or blocking the wind from entering the building.
	www.aa.uidaho.edu /archwebs/bldgvital/moses3.html (1065 words)

	Questions
		Earth sheltered (underground and bermed) homes, and homes with an earthen roof use soil as insulation.
		Earth sheltered homes use the moderated temperature of the earth to protect the dwelling from the elements.
		By shielding the house from direct exposure to the air, the interior of the house only need be raised from the ground temperature surrounding the house to room temperature during the heating season as opposed to a standard home that must battle with colder air temperatures.
	www.frontiernet.net /~wildrick_cole/questions.html (1233 words)

	An Earth Sheltered Home (Earth Berm) at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland.
		It is not intended to link the internal temperature of the home to the temperature of the surrounding earth.
		The cost and hassle of actually having a roof of earth (verses an in-ground house with a conventional insulated roof) cannot be justified merely by the insulating properties of the soil.
		This site is all about building a cool, energy efficient house, that makes maximum use of earth sheltered design, passive solar heating and cooling, geothermal exchange energy management, and right sizing of the house for it's designated use.
	www.ourcoolhouse.com /phase1.htm (770 words)

	ZPEnergy.com - Geoconditioning - The Underground Pyramid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scientist are now predicting based on computer models, an extreme change in the earth’s temperature due to methane emissions from melting arctic permafrost.
		To be more specific, geoconditioning is an attempt to utilize passive and active solar energy techniques in order to cool areas of the lower atmosphere close to the ground within an increasingly hot climate, and provide comfort zones for humans and animals alike.
		Earth sheltering via the 24 inches of earthen material on top of each level will provide a heat sink moderating the effects of heat gain from sunlight.
	www.zpenergy.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1770 (632 words)

	Earth Sheltered Housing and Commercial Structures - The Concept... Earth Sheltering, What is it?
		Earth-covered means putting a blanket of earth on the roof of a structure built on grade.
		Earth Sheltered Homes were introduced in the United States in 1955.
		Because earth covers most of their exterior, earth-sheltered houses require less outside maintenance, such as painting and cleaning gutters.
	www.businesscentral.ws /servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpage=page&GID=00175000000982954435768926&PG=00175000000982954436006369 (486 words)

	Mother Earth News - April/Mayt 1995
		Earthwood's performance is the result of employing several design characteristics not usually combined in American homes: a round shape, earth sheltering, cordwood masonry, solar orientation, and a 23-ton wood-fired masonry stove.
		Our south side is not earth sheltered at all, to take advantage of solar gain and to maximize light; but the earth berm on the north of the two-story home is 13' deep, so we have an average of 6' of earth sheltering around the home, plus an 8"-deep earth roof.
		With a properly constructed earth roof—with rigid foam insulation on the top side of the membrane—the waterproofing layer is permanently protected from these phenomena.
	www.daycreek.com /dc/HTML/TMEN_No149.htm (4188 words)

	Ecology BS - About us - Case studies - Hockerton housing: low impact living
		Earth sheltering is a type of building construction which combines the potential for very low energy use and minimal disruption to land and flora.
		The view from the frontage overcomes the objection that earth sheltering must involve the loss of visual facility.
		This is partly due to the houses being terraced and through the sharing of services and facilities, but is also contributed to by the earth sheltering itself.
	www.ecology.co.uk /html/aboutus/casestudies/hockerton.htm (854 words)

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