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A Non-Profit Uses Compressed Earth Blocks to Build Happy Homes in Haiti 

In May 2021, Ryan Runge, owner of AECT (Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies) near San Antonio, Texas, received a phone call that intrigued him. One of the BP714 compressed earth block machines that his company had manufactured needed maintenance. The machine, which uses hand-operated levers to produce interlocking, holey CEBs (compressed-earth blocks), was in Haiti. Owned by the non-profit organization Welcome Home Haiti (WHH), which is in the northern part of the country a short distance from Cap-Haitien, local workers had used the machine to manufacture 100,000 blocks for 130 new homes. 

By Camille LeFevre, Rise Writer
12 min read
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Camille LeFevre

Camille LeFevre is an architecture and design writer based in the Twin Cities.

Camille LeFevre