We're happy to have completed our second dome this summer! With this third and final report I hope to have provided a good overview of the process for anyone considering it. (See Part 1 and Part 2.) With a team of seven you can build one of these small domes in about a week, but there's a fair amount of prep work ahead of time, plus finish work afterwards. With just three of us working on it - along with a lot of other projects - our average so far has been one per year. The two friends in the photo above (Did you spot both?) weren't much help. Superadobe is over-engineered for structural integrity. Amateurs can make little mistakes here and there without ruining it. We follow the training we received as closely as possible to make super-strong structures that tests show can weather any extreme event (eg. earthquake, tornado).
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