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SERVICES
Residential & Commercial Construction Process
Solum Rammed Earth provides full sub-contracting services for all applications of stabilized rammed earth (SRE) work throughout the Okanagan Valley. With over 5 years combined experience, Solum directors have experience spanning residential, commercial, civil, and landscape applications. Solum maintains a competitive advantage by owning all the necessary unique equipment to efficiently carry out SRE projects, including a custom earth blending machine.
Project & Design Consultation
SRE is a unique building system that requires specific information and specifications. We strive to offer a complete package including consultation on project development and design to ensure a successful completion of your project from ideas to completed built environments.
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Benefits
BUILD GREEN Reduce the embodied energy in building a home by using local material as the main structural component; you are doing your part to offset CO2 emissions |
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What is Rammed Earth?
Stabilized Rammed Earth (SRE) is damp engineered soil, stabilized with minimal cement that is mechanically compacted into handcrafted custom formwork. What is left is sandstone like wall; completely unique from any other. The design possibilities are truly endless. |
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SRE is a blend of gravel, sand and clays with no organics, mixed with minimal Portland cement as a stabilizer. Iron oxides are added to the mix to achieve desired colours. We form our walls with re-usable aluminum formwork, greatly reducing our construction waste. The soil is mixed and delivered to the wall with a loader where it is hand shovelled into the forms in 6” – 8” lifts, each lift is pneumatically tamped as we work our way up to the full wall height. This is what creates the sedimentary rock look. The wall is finished inside and out after the forms are stripped off; no need for toxic paints, drywall or siding thus greatly reducing the ecological footprint of your project. |
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INDUSTRY & LINKS
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