Adivasis make Soil Cement Blocks

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Uploaded by on Dec 2, 2007

In Gudalur, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, Adivasis have been trained in making low-cost, environment-friendly method of making soil cement blocks used for construction. This video shows one such group making Blocks. www.adivasi.net accordgudalur@gmail.com

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  • They are quite strong. We have built 3 storied buildings with that. You can have a look at the photo gallery in ashwini website.

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  • Thats pretty awesome really.

  • Wow... and some of my friends complain that they have hard jobs... damn...

  • brilliant!

  • Looks like a very stiff, no-slump mixture like in roller-compacted concrete, but with the press (and jumping guy) providing the compaction. What kind of compressive strength do they get out of those?

  • We need more information!

  • @mortiraw same question...

  • is that some adobe?

  • prva liga

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