Hi there folks of the world.
My apologies for been vacant on this blog for sometime now. My last post was in fact in 2022.

Time goes so fast!
There are various blog topics that I currently have on the go which I’m excited about sharing, but all are in different states of completion which need finalising and posting. So watch this space.

Where have I been?
Well, my time has been primarily focused with the God’s Way Ltd organisation. If you have not heard of this, check it out here.
We have been very busy full-time with a range of projects. To save me from repeating what you may already know, the projects have been well presented on the God’s Way Ltd blog.
I love volunteering my skill-set and time to an organisation who’s aim it is to share God’s personal way of Love and Truth with the world and the benefits that it will bring personally to the individual and to the world.
In amongst that, personal rest time is set aside to continue to discover the resistances, false beliefs, and addictions inside of myself that prevents me from connecting with my true identity, God, and my soulmate.
This is a continual work in progress.

Last November (2023) myself and Phoebe Bruce were appointed as Directors of the organisation along side existing Director, Eloisa Sparks.
Phoebe and I were invited in as Directors which has allowed Jesus and Mary who previously filled that role, to give them time back to focus on what they love; sharing Divine Truth with the world.
However, the role change was primarily a strategic move to provide us with the learning opportunity and responsibilities involved with running God’s Way Ltd.

Jesus and Mary gratefully give us mentoring and feedback to help us (even from the other side of the World), as we are all still learning the ropes of the role.
The new role is a work in progress personally but is an enjoyable yet challenging one at learning how to run a company under a Constitution based on loving principles, compared to how the world does it.

DONATIONS
I would like to take the opportunity to send out a huge heartfelt thanks to those that donate to me.
Some of the donations come from people whom I have never even met before, and look I forward to meeting those people in person someday. It blows me away with the gift of generosity.
While there are others that have been consistently donating for years. Your ongoing support has been invaluable.
The donations allow me to utilise my time to be able to work full-time with God’s Way Ltd organisation, working beside great people (Jesus, Mary, Eloisa and Phoebe) with the same goals for the world.
I have sometime ago lost one of my most generous and consistent long term donors, due to alternate life changes.
Unfortunately this has meant that my basic living expenses are not now being covered and I have been eating into rainy day savings.
This can’t be sustained and I may have to reduce work time with God’s Way Ltd to procure funds spending my time using my skill-set elsewhere.
I would appreciate if anyone would like to assist by donation to allow my time to continue to be spent with God’s Way Ltd, which in turn assists Gods Way Ltd if I can continue working for free as a gift to the organisation.
Regular donations are the most preferable because they offer consistency, but any type of donations are wonderfully appreciated.
Thank-you.

SPARE TIME PERSUITS
Besides my time on God’s Way projects and time on myself, I’ve personally felt for some time now, that everyone in the world should have shelter available to them.
It is a basic survival need, in conjunction with food and water.
This is in the same spirit of how God feels; that God’s gifts are available to all of us – not just some. (equality)

The criteria I feel that for everyone to have shelter would be:

• Products need to be easily available world-wide, (accessibility to all)
• Man, child or woman can build it, (self-responsible)
• Can be self-built without requiring professional skills, (self-educating)
• Doesn’t require heavy machinery, (simplicity)
• Is low cost, (affordable to all)
• Doesn’t pollute the environment upon its end of life use / deconstruction, (love for the environment)
• Can easily be added to if you need an extra space, (flexibility)
• Is well insulated, with no need of additional heating and cooling, (using God’s Natural Laws)
• Has a nice feel to it when inside of it, (a soul space)
• Individual personality and creativity can shine through it’s creation, (personal expression)
• Can harvest it’s own potable water supply, (self-responsible)

Over the past year or two/three when I can find the time, I have been experimenting with aerated concrete – or aircrete.
This is made from 3 ingredients – detergent, water and cement.
These 3 items are generally available virtually everywhere in the world.

This simple product was first tried in Hawaii (as far as I am aware) by an outfit named Domegaia.
Ironically, the founder of Domegaia emailed God’s Way Office many years back.
God’s Way Building Team were running some experiments at the time using industry waste sawdust as building product, The experiments were posted on the (God’s Way blog).
The founder of Domegaia must have read the blog post out of interest, and in turn shared what they were doing. This is how I learned about aircrete.

The product itself is made by producing a very dense foam (much like shaving cream foam) from detergent, water and air.
This is then mixed in to a cement and water slurry mix.
When these two mixes are combined it creates the aerated cement mix.
The resultant mix looks similar in consistency to a chocolate mouse – but grey and probably a bit crunchy!

The mix is then poured into a formwork (a specific sized container) and left to set.

The purpose of the foam is to create tiny aircells in the cement block which give it the insulation properties.
The foam expands the cement slurry by 5 to 7 times its original quantity. This makes the use of cement very economical.
The foam density is critical to achieve because it is the integral support structure for the cement mix until the cement has hardened.
The foam bubbles eventually dissipate to form micro air cells in the final product. These air cells give the product it’s insulating properties.
Once the product is set enough to hold shape, (usually about 24 hours) the mix is cut into the block sizes required and left to cure ready for use when enough have been made.

Domes are the common shape made from aircrete because aircrete has a relatively low load-bearing capacity as an individual item.
The dome shape overcomes this load-bearing issue by being based upon one of God’s strongest shapes – a sphere.
Think of what God has made for strength and it is all based on a circle (cylindrical or spherical).
Things like:

• Planets
• Tree trunks, branches and roots
• Fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds
• Bones
• Cells
• Eggs
  It makes you ponder; if God builds this way for strength, why don’t we?

The domes are built on a pre-poured concrete slab to suit the footprint of the designed dome/s.
Once the dome or variants of this shape is built, the inside and outside surfaces are cement rendered with a mesh inlay to increase the strength.
It is essentially the same structural principal as a SIP panel (Structural Insulated Panel). An insulation material sandwiched both sides with a hard surface either side.
The difference being that SIP’s usually contain a very environmentally unfriendly foam products. Seemingly great for now, but it will become the next generations environmental pollution problem.
A liquid applied waterproof membrane (available at most hardware stores) is applied to the outside for weatherproofing.
Then a decorative cement render is applied over the top of that as a final product.
The same process is done on the inside, minus the need of the waterproofing membrane.

It is all a very hands on process, but very easy for DIY unskilled building novices.
While it has been a bit of a backyard novelty, the worlds first Council Approved aircrete dome building has been built in Flaxton, Queensland, Australia.
Domes less than 4m² generally don’t require council approvals. However, check with your local authority.

For me, I’m not 100% sold on the idea just yet.
It’s simply a building system that ticks virtually every box except water collection. Other non-habitable outbuildings could provide the water catchment.
I’d love to build one to get accurate data on it to give to God’s Way Ltd to share with the world if it were to be successful as an idea.
To be a project for God’s Way, I would, as any responsible person would, need to do the research and live testing before presenting it as a viable project to God’s Way Ltd if they had an interest in it.
I have the space to do it, but just not the time it would require from me as it is a time heavy process.
I have drawn up a design with some tricks to gain more space than you think you could get from a dome. They actually feel bigger on the inside than what you think from the outside.

Currently I have made an aircrete testing box to get some data on the insulation properties, both for hot and cold conditions.
While there are some claims out there about the great insulation properties (which I can’t find information on how they came to those figures), I would like to get real data to corroborate that.

Being a spherical shape, the sun never radiates directly onto to the entire surface. It’s only able to focus on a small specific area, such as shining a light on a basketball, as opposed to a flat surface like most buildings.
The shape is also aerodynamically fantastic. The wind force goes over and around the shape, therefore very little wind-load is imposed on the structure.
The acoustic insulative properties is also excellent when inside the aircrete dome.

Pro’s

• No weak points. The walls become the roof in a monolithic form
• The sun can never heat up a flat surface, because there are none
• Self supportive nature of the shape allows windows or doors to be cut in at a later stage should and extension or addition to the dome be required
• Starting the semi-circle of the dome at waist high allows more height at the walls. Essentially not a semi-circle but 3/4 of a sphere
• The shape deflects wind loads to go around and over the building reducing lateral forces significantly
• Hand tools can complete the job
• Great acoustic properties from outside noise
• Zero heavy lifting
• Very easy to work with
• For hot or cold climates
• Crushing the product down reduces it to approx. 1/20 of the original size. The resulting waste product can be reused.
• Non-flammable
• No expensive or heavy machinery required
• Non-toxic
• No mould
• No termites
• No forests cut down or habitats lost
• The structural component is also the insulating component
• Excellent sound insulation qualities
• Uses very small amount of materials for the size of the building
• Has gained Engineering and Building approvals in Australia
• Very low cost

Con’s

• Round shape wont work for all furniture
• Can’t catch water from the structure
• Only 10 years (approximately) of testing in existence
• 90% built by hand (labor intensive)
• Potentially susceptible to impact damage by foreign matter in severe storms
• No real defined product testing parameters except specific mix recipe
• Can only build at ground level, not multi-story

The pro’s seem to outweigh the con’s.
However, that is all on paper.
The real test is an actual tangible structure.
If time permits one day, I would love to try it out.