Making Better ConcreteGUIDELINES to Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures Bruce King, P.E.A personal Note from Charmaine: the Dirtcheapbuilder bookstore owner-" It was THIS exact photo on the front cover of Scientific American* magazine, issued 20-30+ years ago that turned my life path to Natural Building! The fact the Pantheon structure in Rome was created from lightweight concrete, made of ash and lime was facinating. This stunningly beautiful roof, with its open-air-portal is one of the wonders of the ancient building world.- Enjoy learning how it was done, and how you can apply simple methods to create your own light weight material! Why a book about concrete? Because we use so much of it – far more than any other building material. It seems only sensible to inquire as to how we can use this ubiquitous building material without undue damage to the life and landscapes that surround us. You may have heard of fly ash as an eco-friendly alternative to using portland cement in concrete, but until now there has been no easy guide to how it makes superior concrete, or to how to use it. This isn’t just for people who want to “build green”—this is for people who want to build better concrete. “This is the best and most readable “how to” guide for using fly ash concrete—highly recommended. Using HFA is a win-win-win solution. It makes better concrete, costs less and has a greater environmental benefit than almost any other primary building material out there.” —Scott Shell Architect, Senior Project Manager, EHDD Architects “Finally, a book on HFA concrete written so that we can all understand it. I will make this required reading by anyone in Tech Services, Operations and Sales.” —Burt Lockwood Central Concrete Supply “This is an excellent and informative primer on high-performance fly ash concrete. This is a “win-win” use of a plentiful man-made waste product that generates benefits to clients, engineers and the global environment.” —Mason Walters Structural Engineer, Principal, Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc. About the Author Bruce King is a registered structural engineer in private practice in San Rafael, California. He is the author of Buildings of Earth and Straw; Structural Design for Straw Bale and Rammed Earth Architecture (1996) and Design of Straw Bale Buildings; The State of the Art (2006). He is founder and director of the nonprofit Ecological Building Network and co-founder, with his wife Sarah Weller King, of Green Building Press. He lives in San Rafael, California. * Search for MAY 1983 issue of that magazine for this article, and others on concrete, fly ash, lime, and see the many free articles on using LIME on my Free Building Articles page, and the Plaster LIME & Clay Books and DVDs page. COMING SOON: < A Resource Guide CD "All about Cement, Concrete & Stone Masonry" Will contain 2,000 + pages of PDF articles, reports, research and building papers, websites, links, booklets and images of building with these materials. $10. Plus the CD will also host about 2,000 pages from the popular "Dirtcheapbuilder Guide" of natural building information, so you have a full resource library at your fingertips. Edition: Paperback. Color cover, B&W Photos, illustrations, charts, diagrams inside. SIC CHapters, 3 appendices author bio & press information. Format: illustrations, photographs, diagrams Pages: 8 1/2 x 11 3/4, 52 pages ISBN: 978-0-9764911-0-1 Old ISBN: 0-9764911-0-9 Publisher: Green Building Press Release Date: 2006-11-02 |