Natural Building Workshops

In this year’s permaskills Natural Building Workshop we will build a Cabin / PermaHome. The hosts would love to have a comfortable, passively heated guest room. The highlights of this workshop are a winter-proof building with passive heat management and well-insulated strawbale walls from foundation to roof, earthen floors, earthen plasters, and even cob sculpting.

You will get the opportunity to build a complete building from foundation through floors and walls to the roof with your own hands. We are trying to use only natural materials, so you know exactly what you are working and surround yourself with.

There are no skill requirements for this Natural Building Workshop! You will learn everything you need to build a PermaHome from foundation to roof. That said, it certainly won’t hurt if you know some things and put it to good use or share it with others. Nobody is perfect and we are always curious to learn other ways of doing things.

This course will provide you with plenty of opportunities to get hands-on experience in Natural Building, all the skills, and especially the confidence you need to build a PermaHome for yourself.

This course consists of theoretical instruction (in English) with lectures & graphics as well as hands-on construction for 7 – 8 hours a day. The successful completion of these Workshops gives you a Natural Building Certificate. You will receive the permaskills Natural Builder Certificate, all the teaching materials by email and the permaskills – Natural Builder’s Handbook, which is a summary of the workshop building steps, upon graduation.

Passive heat management – In Canada the winters are long and cold, therefore we need good insulation for the house and an internal heat storage that will be charged by sunlight and release the heat at night.

There is often someone who leads yoga or some other movement practice in the morning and/or the afternoon. We like to have one evening a week to show slides, videos or have workshop related debates. The rest of the time you can spend on your own, join a jam session or contribute something to share with the group.

Rob has been doing construction work since the age of 12 when he accompanied his grandpa on construction sites during his summer vacation. He’s a Jack of all trades, experienced in Masonry, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical Wiring, Home Automation, Cob Building & Sculpting, Green-Roofs, Non Violent Communication, Teaching and Team-Building and is bringing it all together to give you a complete experience from foundation to roof. Robert loves the Natural Building Community and bringing together the kind of people that are interested in it. He loves teaching and the look on faces when people succeed in doing things they never imagined they could do.

We offer 4 work trade discounts, 2 in the kitchen making breakfast in the morning and 2 on-site in the morning before breakfast or in the afternoon between class and dinner. An ideal learning opportunity to get a glimpse on every detail of the build. Each work trade is $50 off the tuition fees per week for one hour of help a day. These positions are naturally in high demand, but reserved to those that need financial support.

Register friends later, get the same discount. When the discount offer is ending soon, but your best friend isn’t sure yet. No problem, register now and secure the discount for the both of you.

Please contact robert.brendler@permaskills.org for more information.
Optional via Whatsapp +4915158593588.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU!!!!