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....
Nov 3, 2014 | Thoughts on Building
There is a remarkable paradox when it comes to introducing new technologies, in construction or any other field. We expect new ideas or technologies to live up to unrealistically high standards, while at the same time we accept as normal many existing ideas or...
Sep 19, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Natural plaster, Recipes, Teachers' Union offices
It’s no secret that we love clay plasters at Endeavour, and the best case scenario is being able to use a clay soil right from the building site. It just so happens that we lucked into this for the teachers’ union office project! After digging some test...
Sep 9, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices
Over 20 years of building with straw bales, I have constantly experimented with new ways to integrate bale walls into buildings that are simple, cost-effective and energy/resource efficient. From load bearing to prefab panels to a variety of framing systems, I thought...
Jun 11, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Teachers' Union offices
Timber framing is an important building system for any sustainable builders’ palette of options, and we always try to include a timber framing element in our projects so our students can gain some exposure and experience in this time-honoured way of building....
