Donation-based adaptive design and build is what we do. We build schools, community centers, and homes. A New Mexico 501(c)(3).

FACTS ON OUR LATEST BUILD IN GUATEMALA:

Our Team

  • Over 50 volunteers & locals from 14 different countries for 24 days

  • Locals working, learning, and earning

  • Over 100 individual financial donations.

  • The 12 person volunteer ECOHAB team.

  • Our friends at Long Way Home.

Our Process & Materials

  • ECOHAB team in Guatemala.

    Over 50 people from 14 different countries came together to make this build happen!

  • Over 2.500 glass bottles used and kept out of the local landscape.

  • 250 automobile tires pounded with earth and used as a foundation.

  • 160 stick of 1/2" rebar reinforce our seismic resistant classroom.

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    Groups of 15-20 local kids from the school worked with us everyday.

  • 600 breakfasts and 600 lunches were served to crew and volunteers.

  • 1500 liters of water catchment storage.

  • Locally sourced .5K solar electric system powers the classroom.

  • 1000 Ecobricks (plastic bottles packed with trash) were utilized for walls.

OUR MISSION

ECOHAB is a source of action where ecology meets adaptive design. We build ecological habitations to amplify communities through self-reliance, education and employment.