{"Page URL":"https://www.appropedia.org/Haiti_Communitere_Ubuntu_Blox_house","Page description":"Ubuntu Blox are a building technology that was developed by Harvey Lacey. Ubuntu Blox projects have been implemented in  to build structures with upcycled waste. Ubuntu Blox houses can take about one forty foot shipping container's worth of Styrofoam out of the waste stream. The Styrofoam is collected, crushed, and bleached before it is put into rice sacks to make the blocks. The blocks are held together with wire and stacked on top of each other in between rebar. The blocks are then plastered over. The final structure is lightweight and flexible, making it highly resistant to earthquakes, and less dangerous if it does collapse. An Ubuntu Blox house has survived a. 8.3 shaketable test with only minor plaster damage. Ubuntu Blox houses have been built in Cité Soleil, Jacmel, and .","Page image":"File:HCUbuntu.jpg","Page is part of":"Haiti Communitere","Page keywords":"Upcycling, earthen plaster, Alternative building, Travel internships, upcycling gallery","Page language":"en","Page license":"CC-BY-SA-3.0","Page title":"Haiti Communitere Ubuntu Blox house","Page views":"303","Page year":"Wednesday, 01-Jan-14 00:00:00 UTC","Project authors":"Harvey Lacey","Project coordinates":"19.139994444444, -72.357097222222","Project location":"Haiti","Project status":"Deployed","Project thumb":"https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/8/82/HCUbuntu.jpg/330px-HCUbuntu.jpg","Modification date":"Thursday, 27-Nov-25 23:09:15 UTC"}