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Build Your Own S.A.B.S. Dream Home

With S.A.B.S. you can truly do it yourself. EPS blocks are lightweight and easy to set in place. GFRC is applied with low pressure and easily smoothed using trowels. These two steps make up the whole shell and can both be done with very little training or experience.

S.A.B.S. does not use heavy materials which makes it possible for anyone to do the job. Panels only weigh 16 – 48lbs and are easy to set in place. GFRC is applied using low pressure so it is easy for anyone to do. With S.A.B.S. you can get as much or as little help as you want.

With S.A.B.S. you can build as fast or as slow as you want to. EPS, if left uncoated, only requires cleaning before GFRC application. S.A.B.S. buildings are built in phases, each completed phase of your house has been checked for structural integrity and can be left without having to worry about something happening to it. If you want to build fast, S.A.B.S. doesn’t hold you back. Each step to completing a S.A.B.S. requires little wait time.

S.A.B.S. has been built in temperatures ranging from -2 to 120 degrees successfully. This doesn’t just extend the building season, it makes all year the build season. So when you start, how long you take, and when you finish are no long issues you have to worry about.

S.A.B.S. is type V-B construction material and limited under type V-B restrictions of the IBC. In short S.A.B.S. is limited to 2 stories with a maximum height of 40ft. Larger projects can be built by utilizing multiple building materials. For a detailed description please see type V-B material limitation in the IBC. S.A.B.S. can be used as floors, interior / exterior walls, and roofs. Because of S.A.B.S. flexibility it can also be used for almost anything from rockwork to waterfalls. Everything in the S.A.B.S. system becomes structural no matter how odd the shape, with no added frame work.

S.A.B.S. has many advantages over any other system on the market. By building or purchasing a house built with S.A.B.S. technology, you are getting a home that will never have a structural fire because GFRC and EPS don’t burn. Your home will also never have water damage, mold or termites. S.A.B.S. box frame composite doesn’t rely on any specific structural members, meaning any damage to your house remains localized. To see a full list of benefits please visit our Benefits page.

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This is natural clay plaster over compressed earth block, I left a small amount of block showing. This brown coat is a mixture of 1 part straw, 1 part clay, 2 parts sand... ad water makes it's own sauce. It is easily applied with a mud trowel and then smoothed with a wood float, however it is very labor intensive, but a lot of fun. You can cover it with a natural clay plaster color coat, clay paint or leave it raw.

We applied this plaster mixture over raw compressed adobe / earth block, as well as drywall that we primed with a BBS plater primer. we then used the air hose to blow sand on the freshly primed surface and allowed it to dry. This Natural Clay Plaster over Adobe / Earth Blockcreates great grab for the fresh plaster coat and increased production. Solstice Develoment Group www.SolsticeDev.com

I have just completed a beautiful Energy Efficient, Compresses Earth Block home in Colorado and would like to exchange ideas with any other Green Builders / Constructors. I will continue to post pics / vids and information on this type of construction, in hopes to expand public knowledge of better building concepts that are environmentally healthy inside and out, as well as affordable.

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“BUILD WITH US” Natural Building Workshop Come learn to build your own truly natural, sustainable, affordable, beautiful home at this 4-day workshop.

Acclaimed Thai organic farmer/earthen builder Jon Jandai and Coloradoan Peggy Reents will teach various natural building techniques using local, readily available materials. They have been leaders in the natural building movement in Thailand for years and are now starting a sustainable living learning center and home in Jefferson, Colorado. Learn through building yourself and creating a simple structure including all aspects of the building process from basic sustainable design principles, selecting clay, making adobe bricks, building walls from various earthen techniques, earthen plasters for earthen and strawbale walls, to natural homemade paints and finishes....