Scaleable truss and frame bamboo/fabric shelter - Space-age mud and wattle

September 21, 2009

Cost verification and comparison : October 2009 email discussions among bamboo experts about housing needs after disasters tells of recent cost of housing associated with former US President, Bill Clinton ... metal emergency housing is thirty percent more expensive than Space-age mud and wattle, maybe more* ... even when the materials are calculated at retail US prices, as in these tables added together.

* The minimum reported cost of the metal emergency shelters was US$ 7,000 for 35 square Meters (375 sq ft), plus construction expense overhead.