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Remote Housing Need Not Cost the Earth
Example of a modern rammed earth house in Western Australia. Photo: Stephen Dobson
By Daniela Ciancio
Building and maintaining houses in remote Aboriginal communities is difficult and expensive, but engineering improvements to rammed earth constructions offer a viable alternative.
Daniela Ciancio is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Western Australia.
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