In Pune District Ferrocement Society(NGO) has encouraged Prof Ambegaonkar to build a samll dam in ferrocement. This dam is useful to recharge the ground water. We are thankful to Mr Girish Sangle for submitting this picture to us. Share this post
After much researching and planning we decided to experiment with "ferrocement" as the chosen building material for our raised garden beds. http://www.flickr.com/photos/91878943@N03/8663308239/in/set-72157633285322990/ We built the frame using two 6.0mx2400mm reinforcing mesh sheets and bolted them to the existing brick wall with a simple bent aluminium plate. Using cable ties we strapped a double layer of…
Ferrocement (sometimes called thin-shell cement) is a construction technique where cement is thinly applied to a sturdy steel or wire frame. It is very
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What’s the best, most efficient way to build water tanks? That question has been burning in my mind since seeing the extent of water shortages firsthand on my…
What is Ferrocement?
Ferrocement is a technique which joins the flexibility of iron (steel) and the resistance of cement. Its best quality is to allow the building of many intere...
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español To make a relatively inexpensive small structure to serve as my workshop, I built a dome of ferrocement. ...
The lowest cost soil for earth building comes from the building site itself. Dig the soil onsite and you could build a ferrocement tank below ground in the pit.
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Apologies to my regular blog followers, but this post is primarily geared to an audience of fellow volunteers, to provide step-by-step...
I first heard about ferrocement tanks through Art Ludwig's book Water Storage floorplan Here's some additional resources I found useful. Has anyone done this already???.
Ferro-cement is a relatively new construction material consists of wire meshes and cement mortar. Applications of Ferro-cements includes housing, marine, agricultural, rural energy, anticorrosive m…
Water tanks made of ferrocement are used widely in many parts of the world to store water for domestic, stock, irrigation and industrial purposes. Ferrocement (also called as Ferro-concrete) consists of a cement-rich mortar applied on both sides of a thin ...
Outdoor Fire Place (Chimenea) From Ferrocement: Our garden is the perfect BBQ spot, a national obsession but when the sun goes down behind our house a 5 o'clock it get's cold straight away thanks to the always prevailing winds here. I wanted to have a fireplace in the garden that would allow our…
