With 30+ years of CEB industry experience under our belt, we are well equipped to provide you with everything you need to set up a successful CEB operation. We go to your site and advise your team on everything from optimizing your process flow and making sure you have all the needed implements to make your project run smoothly...to prepping and mixing material and making, stacking, curing, and eventually laying earth blocks.
Our services include but are not limited to:
- Soil testing and selection
- Soil moisture control
- CEB machinery usage and calibration
- CEB machinery maintenance
- Construction site setup
- Block stacking and curing methods
- Block-production process flow
- Story-pole and level-line setup
- CEB construction process flow
- Slurry mixing techniques
- Block laying methods
- Block cutting methods
- Methods of running utilities
- Bond-beam construction techniques
- Earthen floor process
- Earthen plaster process
- Lime plaster process
- Home design
Daily Rate: $1,500
Weekly Rate: $5,000
AECT machinery can be rented with an operator. Our CEB batch plant consists of a 3500 CEB machine along with a Mega Mixer, a 20-foot power conveyor to feed mixed earth from the mixer to the 3500, power and gravity conveyors, with stands (to convey finished blocks away from the CEB machine and onto pallets), block cutters, spare machine parts, and all tools needed to maintain machinery during the course of your project. Mobilization, which includes batch plant transport/set up, soil testing/selection, equipment fine-tuning, and crew training, typically takes about a month. A typical AECT batch plant is shown in the picture to the right. Also, see below for a video of our mobile block plant in action.
AECT block plant set up and ready to go
Feeding material from tractor to Mega Mixer to 3500 to the pallet
Making 10" x 14" x 3.5" cement-stabilized CEBs at a rate of 480 blocks per hour
Mobilization, which includes batch plant transport/set up, soil testing/selection, equipment fine-tuning, and crew training, typically takes about a month. Mobilization of our batch plant to your location is priced according to the map pictured on the right.
Green zone: $20,000
Orange zone: $25,000
Blue zone: $30,000
The 3500 CEB machine can make block sizes of 10” x 14”, 8” x 14”, and 7” x 14” (thickness can be set anywhere from 2” to 4.5”). In addition to the mobilization cost, the cost structure of renting the batch plant is as follows:
Customer provides labor: $1.00 per block
AECT provides labor: $2.00 per block
Customer is responsible for providing tractors (front loader), forklifts, earth, sand (if applicable), stabilizer (typically cement or lime), water, fuel, electric services, hydraulic oil, pallets, plastic wrap, secure tool storage, and lodging for AECT resources.
