Greenest City Community Build Project (Parkdale)
Greening Homes facilitated the building of a rammed earth bag rain water harvesting cistern pad for the community group Greenest City. The challenge was to reduce the carbon footprint of a project that, if conventionally built, would have required several tons of concrete and steel rebar. Greening Homes proposed rammed earth bag construction, a solution from the natural/alternative building world.
The cistern pad, as built by Greening Homes with help from the community, is constructed using tamped bags of 1/4 stone. A small amount of concrete parging was added to the exterior of the pad to provide an organic finished look in keeping with the spirit of the project and the HOPE community garden, which is watered using the runoff from the adjoining building.
The Greenest City rainwater harvesting initiative was formally opened in 2008 by Councillor Gordon Perks.
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