Earth Building UK & Ireland
If you are interested in Earth Building in any capacity, you are in the right place, our mission is to cheerfully foster low impact, healthy construction with earth in the UK, Ireland and beyond. We support, research, foster, encourage and create events about earth building.
EBUKI is a registered charity.
Our aim brings together all the earth building interests, commercial, design, academic, training and research.
Earth is a material to design and make with, as a tool for de-carbonising construction, and to shift relationships within both creators and users of the built environment. We knew that earth buildings feel good, but we didn’t know exactly why. We knew there was satisfaction to be found in the manipulation of these materials and techniques, but didn’t have a system or institution to train new users.
Over the years we have partnered with universities and colleges, private institutions, and companies to further the use and understanding of earth building and finishes.
Nikolay Shahpazov - Earth, the most sustainable building material we have got
Rowland Keable Earth Building Policy what a national training standard means, and how you get there
Felix Sagar & Alys Hargreaves Earth Inside London
Anna Castilla Vila The pros and cons of clay plaster being on trend
Glen MacDonald Restoration of mud brick houses
Will Stanwix Inside earth faster! Mechanising earth construction and using pre-dried blocks.
James Henderson Cover the world with clay plaster. Assess and prepare wall systems for clay plaster.
Janna Laan Lomas Bringing clay along an architect's journey from 'hobbit house' to passivhaus
Tavs Jorgensen and Low-Cost Extrusion System for Earth Brick Production
Becky Little & Tom Morton on Earthbound Orkney - 6000 years of earth construction in Orkney
Harry Johnson and the importance of establishing local networks of materials and makers
Jan Glasmeier with examples of earthen community projects in the global south
Clayfest Community
Rowland Keable pop-up stove talk Clayfest 2024 Day 1
Earthbound Orkney
Prefabricated rammed earth
Printing 3D earth buildings
Integrating Clay in Design
Japanese interior wall construction and the hierarchy of earthen finishes
Anthony Hudson
Caroline Nicolay
Steve Cole
Keynote Speaker: Paloma Gormley
Rewilding youth trailer for Inside Earth: Clayfest 2023
We are All made Out of mud, by Craft Film Collective (Zanatsko-filmska zajednica)
Making a polish clay/lime plaster bar by Becky Gilling
Earth Building Rework with Maria Sanchez
Orkney balls by Tom Morton and Becky Little
Earth Fibre Course for Designers at Amaco (French mobility programme)
Clayfest 2018 Video