The promotion of sustainable development has put pressure on all industries, including the construction industry to adopt and implement proper methods to protect the environment. The con- struction building process requires high energy input and causes a wide range of quantifiable environmental side effects including greenhouse gas emissions, large amounts of water use, as well as solid and liquid waste production.
Due to current global concerns for sustainable development that have arisen from extensive environmental problems such as cli- mate change and the impoverishment of resources coupled with the rapid pace of technological advancement within the build- ing sector, interest in alternative building materials such as earth