@upwinger Have you built with aircrete before?? I am hoping to find someone with aircrete experience to teach!

@SoStupendous awesome! There is a set of plans available on this website that I am hoping will satisfy the county!

Hello! My name is Alexandra and I live in Butte County. Last November our community was devastated by the most destructive wildfire in our state's history. While over 50,000 fled for their lives, 17,000 homes burned to the ground in a single day. We still have 1000 families looking for homes and thousands living in RVs. We are working to set up an alternative building demonstration site to highlight the beautiful, affordable and fire resistant ways people can choose to rebuild. We are in an area where many were not insured and lived at the poverty line. We are working to create a sustainable, large scale off grid eco community to care for those who are living in trauma and poverty. The first step is this building demonstration and workshop to teach locals how to use this building method.

We are working with like minded non-profits to bring this to life. There is a beautiful big picture and an opportunity to be part of a grassroots movement to shift the way we live. State and federal agencies have reached out to see how they can support and have shared that they will be excited to see what we come up with. Our building codes have become more relaxed because of the housing crisis and we have an incredible opportunity to bring these "alternative" methods to the forefront. We will need to get the plans approved through the county and the plans available through this website look great. Please message me or email Alexandra.Kriz@yahoo.com and I would love to talk with you about what we are up to. It would be great if someone was an instructor. We are open to hearing of other building methods as well if they can include plans from an architect or engineer. This community has a wonderful crew heading here in July to teach traditional cob.

The site is at an amazing campground on a lake that lost its caretaker home and cabins in the fire. We would like to rebuild these structures to help locals have a space to live who can't immediately rebuild and to be able to teach groups how to use these methods and hopefully get some building done before winter sets in. Thank you so much for your time and we hope to hear from you!