[Domesteading 00278] Re: Fw: books

[CJ Fearnley]

If you live in Upstate New York, there are two geodesics events upcoming.  One
in Ithaca on 5 April; and one in Oswego in early July.  See the Synergetics
Collaborative (provisional) blog:
http://snec.blogspot.com/2008/03/geodesic-sculpture-project-for-children.html

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:42:23PM -0400, RoConroy at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 3/23/2008 8:12:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> bewise at hypertech.net writes:
> 
> I have  been looking at dome houses for some time now and I want to learn 
> more.   I am headed to Africa in the Peace Corps and I would like to be able to 
> build  or educate about dome houses wile I'm there.  I am looking for the  
> newest, most thorough book about dome houses and construction.  I am  looking for 
> plans, different types of houses, how-to-build them and or any  
> environmentally friendly additions to add to them.  When my wife and I  return I plan on 
> building a dome house and would like to find out more about  the services your 
> company offers.
> 
> 
> 
> Lucas,
>      I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya in the mid  70's, designing and 
> building water supply systems. You will find most of the  African homes of the 
> countryside are either rounded or domed.  The problem  with conventional domes 
> is that you will not find the materials available in the  African countryside 
> to build American type conventional domes, and the termites  would be a 
> problem if the domes weren't built to meticulous standards. 
>      I am presently working on a design for Ethiopia,  which is now being 
> used as the source of fresh food stuffs for the oil rich  neighboring Arabian 
> peninsula.  The housing demand would be great enough in  Ethiopia to manufacture 
> insect repellent EPS panels, and modified lightweight  ECC concrete products  
> which could be used to coat the panels.  For  information on the design, go to 
> _http://members.aol.com/mtdomes/MoldedPanelDome.html_ 
> (http://members.aol.com/mtdomes/MoldedPanelDome.html)    The 500 s.f. dome modules can be built up 
> into larger structures.  
>     With oil at $110/barrel, the oil rich nations have  the money to invest 
> in this type of thing, but they want to do it in a money  making, self renewing 
> way, and they would prefer not spend little or any of  their money. 
>      For when you return to the US, I would suggest  going the more 
> conventional route, because the materials are all available in  the US for the 
> conventional type of domes.  The EPS panel dome would work  here, but the basic mold 
> cost for the dome panels would be around $60,000, which  only works when you 
> are building a large number of domes. Build a 1000 domes,  and your cost is only 
> $60/dome for the molds.
> Bob
> 
> 
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