By   Keith Halliday ---a Yukon economist and author of the Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels.

In order to build structures in the hyper saline environment of the Dead Sea it might be beneficial to use salt as a construction material. The Dead Sea is a tectonically active area with a subsoil consisting of at least eight meters of salt. It is a challenge to construct in this kind of environment, especially since no design criteria exist for constructing on and with salt.