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Kenya: Indigenous Earth Building Construction Technology

This paper documents the earth construction techniques used in Ota in order to preserve the earth construction heritage of the Ota people while checking the suitability of the earth materials used using soil classification tests. Interviews of earth constructors in six villages in Ota were conducted to determine their material selection criteria, material processing, and construction techniques.

 

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