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We have two comments from Marcin regarding the Wall Safety:

Comment #1:
“Our
house walls are approximately 8x overbuilt. We are not only stacking
our bricks the wide way, but we are also doing double wall construction
for all exterior walls, as promised. Our walls are all together 3 feet
thick for the exterior walls, and are typically 700+ PSI, or over 2x the
value for adobe. Further - for those concerned about the quality of our
construction - a distinction should be made between fired brick masonry
and earth construction techniques, which include adobe, cob, and CEB.”

Comment #2:
Dear Nikolay and rest of OSE Community,

I have published a technical review of the HabLab construction,
focusing on the first CEB wall that raised questions about the soundness
of our construction. We interviewed Floyd Hagerman to address the
technical issues raised. Floyd is a professional builder of 20 years
experience in residential and light commercial construction, with CEB
construction as part of his services.

Becuase of his experience with CEB construction (Floyd owns a
Powell and Sons CEB machine), we have recruited Floyd as our new
construction manager, to lead the building project to completion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9KWd42saQg

I am hoping that this addresses any technical issues raised, and
that it brings confidence back to the community regarding the successful
completion of construction. If you have any outstanding questions,
please contact me. I must say that my time on the internet is quite
limited, as we are doing full days of brick pressing for at least the
next 10 days, or until the ground becomes unworkable.

We are taking the power cube, CEB press, and Pulverizer through
rigorous field testing, with hudreds of hours of use at this point. The
tractor is not currently being used because of the issue with motor
couplers, which we will work on after our brick pressing period. I am
also glad to report that James Slade is making progress on resolving the motor coupler issue independently in parallel, and Tom Griffing
is already making improvements to the Power Cube. This is the true
spirit of 24/7 open source development around the globe. The Soil
Pulverizer has been robust to date - and it is able to feed 2 CEB
presses at one time. We have about 20,000 bricks to go.

Thanks for your support as always,

Marcin

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