On the Facebook page of Earthship Florida I discovered some more photos. I placed them in chronological order.
Ready for concrete. The vapor barrier is down and the red you see is PEX tubing for a hydronic system; water will be pumped through the thermal mass of the large concrete slab to help regulate temperature inside the home.
Also in one of the facebook discussion I found out why there is a giant concrete slab.. surprise surprise… the government made them do it!
too bad they made you do a giant slab... they made us do that in Japan too... its funny because it doesnt make it stronger, in fact if an earthquake hits (not that it will) then the concrete cracks and the rammed earth in tires dont crack... ;-) we have to do something similar for the retrofit project in Long Beach...
June 2 at 6:07am
Yea Jonah, we even had a structural engineer look everything over who said concrete footings weren't necessary. Thing the building department was insistent upon was tying the roof to "the foundation" because of hurricane codes. The fact the walls are earth bermed to the roof didn't matter. It's down now and on to the walls though!
June 2 at 3:16pm
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