Advantages of CSEB Houses

• A local material

  Ideally, the production is made on the site itself or in the nearby area. Thus, it will save the transportation, fuel, time and money.

• A bio-degradable material

  Well-designed CSEB houses can withstand, with a minimum of maintenance, heavy rains, snowfall or frost without being damaged. The strength and durability has been proven since half a century.

  But let’s imagine a building fallen down and that a jungle grows on it: the bio-chemicals contained in the humus of the topsoil will destroy the soil cement mix in 10 or 20 years… And CSEB will come back to our Mother Earth!

• Limiting deforestation

  Firewood is not needed to produce CSEB. It will save the forests, which are being depleted quickly in the world, due to short view developments and the mismanagement of resources.

• Management of resources

  Each quarry should be planned for various utilisations: water harvesting pond, wastewater treatment, reservoirs, landscaping, etc. It is crucial to be aware of this point: very profitable if well managed, but disastrous if unplanned!

• Energy efficiency and eco friendliness

  Requiring only a little stabilizer the energy consumption in a m3 can be from 5 to 15 times less than a m3 of fired bricks. The pollution emission will also be 2.4 to 7.8 times less than fired bricks.

• Cost efficiency

  Produced locally, with a natural resource and semi skilled labour, almost without transport, it will be definitely cost effective! More or less according to each context and to ones knowledge!

• An adapted material

  Being produced locally it is easily adapted to the various needs: technical, social, cultural habits.

• A transferable technology

  It is a simple technology requiring semi skills, easy to get. Simple villagers will be able to learn how to do it in few weeks. Efficient training centre will transfer the technology in a week time.

• A job creation opportunity

  CSEB allow unskilled and unemployed people to learn a skill, get a job and

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