Rammed Earth Structures: A Code of Practice

This book aims to show how high standards can be achieved and the criteria on which rammed earth structures and building techniques can be judged. An important guide and resource for those wishing to employ this economical and low-carbon building material in the construction of public as well as private buildings in Africa and elsewhere.

Julian Keable was an architect who initiated the use of rammed earth for projects in Africa in the 1970s and continued working in the field until the end of the 1990s.

Rowland Keable has been working with rammed earth and building rammed earth structures since the mid-1980s.