Fascinating day spent learning to sand cast bronze treehouse hardware with Tom at the Free Spirit Spheres foundry.
| Location: | Free Spirit Spheres, Qualicum Bay, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | June 2019 |
Casting Bronze
Natural Building Colloquium
Mark Fleischhaker, P.Eng., was a speaker at the 2019 Natural Building and Ecological Design Colloquium at OUR Ecovillage where he
- shared his takeaways from focusing his engineering work on meaningful structures over the past 4 years
- contributed to a panel discussion
- taught the basics of structural systems to natural building enthusiasts
“Rocking OUR world and the full house of builders, designers, and all at the ‘Natural Building and Ecological Design Colloquium’ is a most amazing Engineer who understands and supports natural building through regulatory processes and helps teach us all what we need to understand to create health, safety and permitted natural buildings!” – Brandy Gallagher
Other speakers and contributors included natural building heavyweights Mark Lakeman (City Repair Project), Mudgirls Natural Building Collective, Elke Cole, Benito Stein, Athena Stein, Patrick Hennebery (Cobworks), Eco-Sense, and the several of the next generation.
| Location: | OUR Ecovillage, Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | June 2019 |
Journey into Natural Homes
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 |
Rammed Earth Workshop
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 |
Vipassana Volunteer Service
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 |
Pam’s Cob House Workshop
Mark Fleischhaker attended Pam’s Cob House Workshop hosted by Elke Cole.
| Location: | Pam’s Cob House, Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date: | August 2015 |
Mango Tree Practical PDC, Nepal
Mark Fleischhaker completed a Practical Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course with Permaville at Mango Tree Eco-Resort.
Course-specific info: http://www.permaville.com/permaculture-design-course-practical-pdc-august-10-sept-7-2014-lamjung-nepal/
| Location: | Mango Tree Eco-Resort, Lamjung, Nepal |
| Completion Date: | September 2014 |
Panya Project Volunteer
Mark Fleischhaker volunteered 4 days at Panya Project.
| Location: | Panya Project, near Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Date: | June 2014 |
Bamboo & Rammed Earth Construction Tour
Markus Roselieb of Chiangmai Life Architects was incredibly kind to spend a day touring Mark Fleischhaker around bamboo & rammed earth job sites.
| Location: | Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Date: | June 2014 |
Earthship Workshop with Michael Reynolds
Mark Fleischhaker attended a three-day multimedia hands-on Earthship Biotecture Seminar in Seattle, Washington hosted by Earthship Seattle. Led by Earthship creator, Michael Reynolds.
| Location: | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Completion Date: | September 2013 |