Building with Solar Power in Thailand Are you planning to include a small solar power contributor to your building project ?  Adopting a small Solar Power solutions is one the the easiest contributions you can make towards lowering your footprint on the earth’s resources in 2010 its easy, fast and affordable ! I have made [...]

There are two main type of vibration elements used in the placement of concrete – external and internal. This post discusses the correct use of  “internal” or “insertion ” vibrators – so called because of because the vibrating head is “inserted” into the concrete. Handheld concrete vibrators are used to consolidate concrete by forcing  the [...]

Bamboo Cement Driving home from the construction site today I saw a group of Thai builders using Bamboo as reinforcement in a concrete floor and also a driveway and stopped and took these photographs. Whilst I am always interested in alternative and traditional building techniques and practices and the use of bamboo as a reinforcing [...]