出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：For centuries, earth has been used as a construction material.Nevertheless, the normative in this matter is very scattered, and in the most developed countries, carrying out a construction with this material implies a variety of technical and legal problems.This article analyzes, in an international level, the normative panorama about constructions with earth, analyzing fifty five standards and regulations of countries all around the five continents; these represent the state of art that normalizes the earth as a construction material.It is a study indexed on the actual procedures and regulations developed by the national organisms of normalization or correspondent authorities.The standards and the organisms that produce them appear, analyzing the structure and the content of each one.We have studied and analyzed the most relevant aspects, such as stabilization, soil selections, the requisites of the products and the existent test, comparing the diverse normative.The knowledge from this study could be very useful for the development of future standards and as a reference for architects and engineers that work with earth.
关键词：normas; edificación con tierra; bloques de tierra comprimida; adobe; tapial
