Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., attended and helped with Elke Cole‘s Journey into Natural Homes presentation at The Living Arts Studio in Kamloops where she taught about natural building materials and techniques.
| Location: | The Living Arts Studio, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | May 2019 |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., was a speaker at Kamloops Green Building Expo 2019 where he shared on “sustainable” building, navigating regulations and more.
| Location: | Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | May 2019 |
“The Mudgirls is a collective of natural builders from the West Coast of B.C., specializing in building with local, natural and recycled materials…”
“Within the Mudgirls philosophy we believe in empowering people to learn basic skills to take care of ourselves while taking care of the earth and building.”
“When we build with recycled and earthen materials, we bypass a lot of the waste stream of the conventional building sector, making a bit smaller of an ecological footprint…we are using a ton of site soil and all the clay that came from the build site, back into the building so that’s a really closed loop.”
“This 580-square-foot studio with loft was designed by Amanda-Rae and her husband Chris Hergesheimer with help from their friend Steve Christian at Second Nature Designs and engineered by Mark Fleischhaker”
| Location: | Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | Spring 2019 |
| Full Article: | http://tinyurl.com/y4zqpfk5 |
“It is not enough for the ‘building’ to be constructed using locally sourced, recycled and sustainable natural materials; but also the process of ‘building’ needs to be sustainable with the end result a place to live and thrive in. I am confident our decision to build a radically sustainable, off-grid home (Earthship) using Permaculture principles; care of earth, care of people and sharing of abundance is the right choice for us.”
“Our structural engineer, Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng shared he has also seen stacked camel/sheep poop structures and old fashioned yurts with felt and animal skin/bark” – odd but it’s true.
| Location: | The Doighouse, Qualicum Bay, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | January 2019 |
| Full Article: | https://tinyurl.com/y3a4nz2p |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., hosted Shelaigh Garson and the Permaculture Kamloops group at the Darfield Earthship for a tour and lecture about engineering.
| Location: | Darfield Earthship, Darfield, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | August 2018 |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., contributed to a Q&A with Cottage Life Magazine’s Early Summer 2018 Issue.
“GETTING THE OK FOR EARTHSHIPS
Why wouldn’t a municipality grant permits to build an earthship?
“In most cases, the design of earthship-like buildings—with tire walls and no concrete foundation—means they fall outside the part of the building code that deals with small residential buildings.
This doesn’t mean you can’t get a permit to build one. “There are lots of buildings that fall outside this part of the code—hospitals, schools—and those things are built all the time,” says Mark Fleischhaker, a structural engineer based in B.C. But it does mean that you’ll need to equip yourself with the right professional services. As soon as you want to build something unconventional, “you better have professionals to back you up,” says Fleischhaker. “You need their stamps on the drawings.” You’ll require, at the very least, input from a structural engineer, but you might also need help from a mechanical or an electrical engineer, depending on the features you plan to include in the structure.”
| Date: | Summer 2018 |
| Full Article: | https://pocketmags.com/share/article/370200 |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., literally stumbled into a Clifton Schooley Rammed Earth workshop down the road from the Darfield Earthship.
| Location: | Barriere, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | May 2018 |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., is the caretaker of the Darfield Earthship – BC’s first permitted Earthship. He has been living there since February 2018 and often gives tours and chats by donation.
| Location: | Darfield Earthship, Darfield, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | February 2018 – Present |
| FB: | www.facebook.com/darfieldearthship |
Great Living Big in a Tiny House video of a healthy tiny that Ben Garratt created. Mark Fleischhaker with the Cob Cannon @ 0:58.
| Location: | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | October 2017 |
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., received a crash course in wood-framed envelope detailing from Keith Tetlow, Architect AIBC, when he served at Dhamma Surabhi Vipassana Meditation Centre.
| Location: | Dhamma Surabhi Vipassana Meditation Centre, near Merritt, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | December 2016 |
