In many countries quality concrete is not produced because aggregates meeting standards are not available and many of the contractors do not understand what constitutes good concrete. This book addresses how to use low-quality materials to produce quality concrete and then use it to construct disaster-resistant homes.
In many countries quality concrete is not produced because aggregates meeting standards are not available and many of the contractors do not understand what constitutes good concrete. This book addresses how to use low-quality materials to produce quality concrete and then use it to construct disaster-resistant homes.
Herb Nordmeyer was homeschooled in chemistry and cement chemistry. Even though he went on to earn degrees in biology, chemistry, and aquatic ecology, he considers his real education that home-schooling. Af-ter following a career track based on his formal education for a few years, he got back into the construction materials field where he specialized in product devel-opment and forensic analysis of failures (usually, but not always, other people's failures). Since his retirement in January, 2010, he and his wife own and operate Nordmeyer, LLC, a consulting, writing, and publishing company. He is a partner in HerbCrete, LLC, a company which develops specialty stuccos. He has been very active in ASTM, serving on Committees: C 1 (Cements), C 11 (Gypsum and Relat-ed Products - including stucco), C 12 (Mortar for Unit Masonry), C 15 (Masonry Units), and C 27 (Precast Products). In September, 2013, Herb made what he thought was his first and last trip to Haiti. Pastor Benoit, President of the Lutheran Church of Haiti, showed him the need for earthquake-resistant and hurricane-resistant housing. He challenged Herb to find or develop technology to build earthquake- and hurricane-resistant housing for Haiti, especially the slum called Jubilee, which could be built for a materials cost of $1,000 US. In November, 2013, Herb was back in Haiti where he agreed to go at least four times per year, as long as his health and finances held up. Besides teaching in the slums, in January, 2017, he taught a 4-semester-hour course in disaster-resistant construction at the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, and in 2018 taught the course in Les Cayes, Jacmel, and two locations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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