Natural Building Alliance

Our 2023 Rocky Mountain natural Building Conference is coming up! Mark your calendars for October 20-22 in Boulder, CO!

The Natural Building Alliance is committed to expanding and sharing knowledge, experience, and techniques for sustainable building. We promote quality building practices and serve as a resource for building professionals and homeowners.

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

2023 Conference

Call for conference proposals – 2023

The Natural Building Alliance is now seeking presentation and workshop proposals for our upcoming Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference. We plan to have keynote presentations, several “breakout” presentations and/or discussions, and outdoor hands-on workshops similar to our conferences in the past. If you’d like to be a presenter or workshop host at this year’s conference, please read on.

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Techniques

Natural Plaster

BASICS Plasters, or renders, are the skin coverings or durable coatings to a wall or structure and in many cases can be applied on the

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Techniques

Timber Framing

Adobes are formed blocks with no machine-powered compression. Compressed earth blocks (CEBs) are machine-made, compressed adobes. The soil composition used for making CEBs and adobe are nearly identical. However, the CEBs are compressed into more uniform and straight edges, which provides a different look than an adobe wall.

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EVENTS & WORKSHOPS

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