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Vernacular constructions represent a very large share of the built environment. Being, by definition, nonengineered constructions, they are the result of ancient traditions, improved with time as...
This report highlights the urgent need to develop new models for cooperation on the decarbonisation of building materials, if the world is to reach its goals for net zero emissions from the built...
A report on housing typologies in Indonesia, with a focus on unreinforced clay brick masonry housing construction that is found in rural areas of Indonesia. This construction is a single-story...
None of the shelters built with aid assistance in Vietnam collapsed in the last 10 years....while others in the community did.
This step-by-step guide explains how to manage the two main types of CRS post-disaster or post-conflict construction: owner-driven and contractor-built. The intended audience includes engineers,...
This presentation, given by Joanna Read, Shelter Centre, summarised the field trip undertaken in November 2010 to Pakistan to evaluate Transitional Shelters built following the Kashmir earthquake...
Jeffery Dougherty, CHF, presented the approach taken by CHF to transitional shelters in Yogyakarta, their reasons for using transitional shelters and the production processes involved. CHF...
Recent research on traditional settlement pattern shows that traditional settlements in Indonesia are losing their values and degeneration of built form has changed the beauty of their original...
Bangladesh is a disaster prone country which has been facing perennial problems of natural disasters. Most houses in the rural areas in Bangladesh are of non-engineered roof construction which...
The project provided non-food items kits to 630 displaced, returnee and host community households and built 200 shelters for the most vulnerable amongst them using local designs and materials....