For a long time, earth building materials have suffered from a lack of binding norms. In 1997, the German Association for Building with Earth (DVL) established the first regulatory framework for building with earth. Now the DVL together with other representatives have founded a Norms Committee at the German Institute for Standardisation, the DIN. The committee was inaugurated on the 23 September 2011 with the aim of agreeing product norms for earth blocks as well as earth masonry mortars and earth plaster mortars. read more...
