Jan 2, 2018 | Material Videos, Natural building materials and techniques, Straw bale building
Waste wood structural columns There is an incredible amount of “waste” wood that is thrown into landfills or otherwise left to rot because it is not long enough to be used vertically in a building. So we take that wood and stack it up to make load bearing...
May 20, 2015 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs
In 2012, Endeavour helped to build a subterranean earthbag root cellar for the The Seasoned Spoon Cafe at Trent University. It was a fascinating project for which we could find very little in the way of research or documentation on which to base our design and...
Dec 4, 2014 | Natural building materials and techniques
Earthbag building is one of Endeavour’s favourite building techniques. We’ve used it for foundations on many projects, and have built an entire buried root cellar with this material. We’ve put together our experience with earth bag in a photo series....
Aug 17, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Teachers' Union offices
In addition to the Durisol stem wall foundation, our project for the teachers’ union office includes two long sections of earthbag foundation to support the floor joist spans inside the building. The inherent insulation value of the Durisol blocks made them our...
