CabBauge cut away wall section showing structural mix and insulating mix, sloping mechanical key between layers and hemp fibres used in reinforcing layers

GBE E72 CobBauge Jargon Buster

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GBE Jargon Buster

Words & Phrases:

  • Bauge (French for Cob)
  • Bespoke Recipe Materials
  • Biobased
  • Breathing wall
  • Cob
  • CobBauge
  • Cob wall systems
  • Earth Building UK and Ireland (EBUKI)
  • Generic materials
  • Insulating Cob
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Materials
  • Methods of Construction,
  • Mineral
  • Moisture Management
  • Moisture mass
  • Moisture transport
  • Monolithic wall systems
  • Recipes
  • Self-build
  • Slip
  • Solid Earth Systems
  • Structural Cob
  • Thermal Comfort
  • Thermal Mass
  • Wall & Barrier Systems

Elements:

  • External Walls
  • Plinth
  • Foundation
  • Floor abutment
  • Internal partitions

Links:

Terran Robotics,

Australian Earth Building Association

Cop Research Institute in Berkeley


GBE Jargon Buster Theme

  • #Earth Construction

GBE Jargon Buster Initials, Abbreviations & Acronyms

  • EBUKI See: Earth Building UK and Ireland
  • ESITC Caen See: (French Laboratories)
  • IPPC See: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • L1A See: Building Regulations Approved Document L1A
  • PnrMCB See: (French Training providers)
  • RT 2018 See: (French Regulations)
  • UoP See: University of Plymouth (UK Laboratories

GBE Jargon Buster Classification

  • (2-) Structure, Primary Elements, Carcass (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (21) External Vertical division
  • (21) Walls, External Walls
  • (41) Wall finishes external
  • (42) Wall finishes, internal
  • E Cast insitu work,
  • H Section work,
  • J Wire work, Mesh work;
  • P Thick coating work;
  • g Claywork (Dried, Fired),
  • j vegetable or animal materials,
  • y Composite materials;
  • g1 Dried Clay e.g.: Adobe, cob, pisc de terra;
  • j3 Vegetable fibres other than wood eg: grasses (bamboo. eelgrass. seagrass, reeds, rushes, straw, strawboard); stem fibres (hemp, jute, flax, linen, flaxboard, hessian); leaf fibres (sisal); seed hairs (cotton, coir)
  • E72 Cob Walls (NGS CAWS+ BRM ’22)
  • 25 Wall & Barrier Systems; (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • 25 00 Monolithic wall systems; (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • 25 00 10 Cob wall systems (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • Systems Ss_25_11_13 Cob Wall Systems (Uniclass 3 ’15)
  • Ss_25_11_13/____ (No NBS clause yet)

GBE Jargon Buster Numbers

  • (2-) Structure, Primary Elements, Carcass (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (21) External Vertical division (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (21) Walls, External Walls (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (22) Walls, Internal Walls (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (41) Wall finishes external (CI/SfB ’87)
  • (42) Wall finishes, internal (CI/SfB ’87)
  • 25 Wall & Barrier Systems; (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • 25 00 Monolithic wall systems; (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • 25 00 10 Cob wall systems (Uniclass 2 ‘12)
  • Ss_25_11_13 Cob Wall Systems (Systems Uniclass 3 ’15)
  • Ss_25_11_13/____ (No NBS clause yet)

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Relevance to Environmental Construction:

  • Healthy
  • Environmental
  • Resourceful
  • Appropriate
  • Competent
  • Effective
  • Yardstick

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18th October 2025

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CabBauge cut away wall section showing structural mix and insulating mix, sloping mechanical key between layers and hemp fibres used in reinforcing layers

CobBauge wall under test, Plymouth Univeristy Laboratories

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18th October 2025 – 25th February 2026

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GBE Links

  • Terran Robotics,
  • Australian Earth Building Association
  • Cop Research Institute in Berkeley
  • #Earth Construction
  • EBUKI See: Earth Building UK and Ireland
  • ESITC Caen See: (French Laboratories)
  • IPPC See: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • L1A See: Building Regulations Approved Document L1A
  • PnrMCB See: (French Training providers)
  • RT 2018 See: (French Regulations)
  • UoP See: University of Plymouth (UK Laboratories

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© GBE GBC GRC GIC GGC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ******
18th October 2025 – 25th February 2026

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