CobBauge sample #2
Domestic dwellings/commercial buildings.
Structural component (50% by volume): Clay based subsoil from Normandy, France (FR2,4,6) with 2.5% (by weight of dry soil) of added mixed fibre (hemp straw, chopped reed, wheat straw).
Thermal component (50% by volume):
Clay based subsoil slip from Normandy, France (FR3) with 50% (by weight of dry soil) of added hemp shiv.
Fully reusable or returned to natural state.
Returned to natural state (on site subsoil). Fibre material biodegradable.
Designed to comply with current UK and French building regulation on thermal conductivity.
Decades to potentially several hundred years.
Readily available in clay subsoil areas.