Compressed Stabilised Earth Block (CSEB)
Posted by ADITYA ROY

The soil is one of the oldest building material used by man. Many buildings that were constructed with soil more than 3000 years are still in existence. The use of earth for building construction was learnt and mastered by doing, and knowledge has passed down to generations. Compressed stabilised earth blocks (CSEB) is the most recent of more than ten construction methods that have documented for soil based construction. Initially, the Europes in the 19th century made first attempts for compressed earth blocks. They used small precast blocks of rammed earth and utilized hand rammers to compress the wet soil...