July 2017

Learning traditional plaster skills at Bichli Haveli Project: grinding lime

2017-08-09T13:31:56-07:00July 19th, 2017|Featured News, India Project|

One of the joys of volunteering at Bichli Haveli Project is hands-on learning about traditional building and craft methods, which we're using wherever possible. Here, Gangabai and Restoration Works board member Gretchen demonstrate the first step in preparing natural lime plaster: grinding the lime into a fine powder.

Keeping waste out of the landfill at the Bichli Haveli Project

2017-08-09T13:56:49-07:00July 14th, 2017|Featured News, India Project|

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, building-related demolition and construction accounts for 2/3 of all non-industrial solids waste generation. But at the Bichli Haveli Project, as we make the necessary alterations to adaptively use the building, we are saving as much of the stone as possible to reuse elsewhere at the site and to [...]

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