Sand bag Building: The Practical Aspect - Softcover

Cibamba, AC Aimé Matamba; Naidoo, LSN Sasha Luresha; Cibamba, MCA Aime Matamba

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519341296 ISBN 13: 9781519341297

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Sand Bag Building: The Practical Aspect, is mostly about presenting the Building by Sand Bag Eco-friendly system. In a post Apartheid South Africa, where housing is still a big issue, Authors of this book present a Building by sand method as an alternative, of building most effective and low cost homes to house million of South Africans. The “Building by bag System”, is a modified Timber frame house structure, with sand bag placed in between to make walls. The idea was developed by Michael Trimeer, and have been since growing across South Africa. Sandbags are packed without any mortar in between which reduces extremely the amount of cements used in the building process. This method present a lot of advantages, but at the same time require more attention on the building process. This book explains what should be done to avoid mistakes. It also feature few projects to give more practical details about the system.

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About the Author

Aimé Matamba Cibamba is a Congolese born Structural Engineer. He’s also a part time writer, columnist and mostly an autodidact researcher. “Sand Bag Building, the Practical Aspect” is the result of many years of experience using the most effective eco-friendly method of building. In this book, together with a Sasha Naidoo they explain what the sand bag system is, and try at the same time to bring attention on the care that need to be taken when moving from theory to practice. Sasha Naidoo is a South African Born Architectural Professional and Project manager. She had taken on informal screen play and short story writing from a young age as a hobby. Sasha has a passion for everything in Arts and even though her main field of work is Architecture, she has explored a variety of genreswhile perusing an Artistic immersion programme in the United States of America.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1519341296
• ISBN 13: 9781519341297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48