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Imagine living in a high-performing green home that was built using sustainable, locally sourced, non toxic building materials, a home that naturally lasted for centuries with minimum upkeep, was quiet, fire and earthquake resistant, energy efficient, healthy to live in and kind to the environment...

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TERRAFIRMA Earth Building Co Ltd is New Zealand's largest and most experienced Rammed Earth Construction Company and have been designing and building traditional, healthy and sustainable homes for over 22 years.
We build comprehensively healthy and environmentally sustainable homes, built without the use of composite timbers, polyurethanes, aluminium joinery, fibreglass insulation, tanalised or rainforest timbers. Please browse our site to learn how TERRAFIRMA can offer a building method that is in harmony with the environment and preferred by clients.

About Rammed Earth

Stabilised Rammed Earth is a widely available building material with virtually no side effects associated with collection and use. We aim to have as low a carbon footprint as possible in the initial manufacture and construction of our homes, to offer owners low energy costs through passive solar design and thermal mass, have them last for many generations and to provide healthy living environments for their occupiers.
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Terra Firma Services

For the last 22 years TERRAFIRMA have been committed to building in a sustainable way. We offer design, consultation and earth wall contracting services throughout New Zealand and complete home-build packages in the greater Auckland and Waikato area.
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Our Projects

Click to view a gallery some of the homes Terra Firma have designed and built.
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LATEST NEWS: Terra Firma's Managing Director Paul Geraets is now a Licensed Building Practitioner for Design area of practice 2 – for category 1 and 2 buildings. Category 1 buildings are single household dwellings with low- or medium-risk envelope design. Category 2 buildings are single household dwellings with high-risk envelope design, or other buildings with a building height* less than 10 m

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PO Box 17324, Greenlane, Auckland 1546, New Zealand
Phone: +64 (09) 963 5942
Fax: +64 (09) 962 5942