Resilience Rating Systems
We use RRS and other frameworks as reference points for thinking about resilience as a measurable, reviewable quality rather than a vague project aspiration.
Education for clearer choices.
Compare resilience frameworks, building health standards, performance goals, and practical material systems.
Better Building Certifications
Compare Building Biology Institute standards and Phius-style (Passive House) certification paths, including where they help, where they overlap, and where project-specific judgment still matters.
Materials Analysis & Comparisons
We build comparison guides for wall assemblies, plaster substrates, insulation, finishes, embodied carbon, toxicity, fire behavior, vapor behavior, and maintenance.
Project education can become the content engine.
- Building with Cob & Clay Workshops have focused on walls, benches, earthen ovens, and sculptural installations. We teach how to evaluate soil, mix, build walls, sculpt, and fasten structural elements.
- Earthen Plasters & Finishes Workshops have focused on wood framing, Faswall, and straw bale projects. Plasters use local materials, with instruction on surface preparation, mix ratios, and hands-on application.
- Lime Plaster & Exterior Stucco Lime work introduces history, chemistry, advantages, surface preparation, premix or site-mixed plaster, additives, staging, and application rhythm.
- Natural Paints & Sealers Clay and milk protein are natural binders used in traditional paint finishes to protect and beautify plaster, drywall, and masonry surfaces with botanical oils.