Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village Manual-How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/Earthbags
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Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village Manual-How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/Earthbags

by Nader Khalili

Publisher
Cal-Earth Press
Pages
303
Language
English
Published
2008

Overview

<p>Emergency Sandbag Shelter is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili (1932-2008), whose specialty was skyscrapers and who dedicated his life to teaching others how to build shelter for humanity. This book, with over 700 photos and illustrations, shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution. This affordable, self-help, sustainable, and disaster resistant structural system is a spin off from Khalili's presentation to NASA for habitat on the moon and Mars, which successfully passed rigorous tests for strict California earthquake building codes. This book along with a small library of films and kits can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community.</p>

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