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The research seeks to develop improvements to earthen architecture practices with a focus on shelter disaster risk reduction in areas that are subject to an array of water related concerns. The...
These guidelines provide good practices for the design and construction of bamboo scaffolds commonly used in Hong Kong. Recommended practices on the design, erection, maintenance and dismantling...
Main topics of the presentation:1. What the cyclonic wind loads in the region may be, and what our suggestions for appropriate wind loads to consider for transitional shelters/buildings are.2....
The speaker outlined their project plan for the development of guidelines supporting the use of bamboo in humanitarian response. Regional workshops had already been undertaken to inform its...
This video made by the IFRC explains how to build / to realize a bamboo shelter. The earthquake-resilient shelters are made out of local materials such as bamboo and rope and cost the equivalent...
In this presentation, the authors introduced the upcoming second volume of post-disaster shelter designs and discussed lessons learned through the process of reviewing the designs and developing...
This Collection compiles knowledge on bamboo-related topics for Africa.
This IOM document detials the technical running of the Bamboo treatment facility built by IOM to support the shelter programs for the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Southern Bangladesh. The Facility...
Karolina Brach, shelter sector coordinator in Cox Bazar and Magnus Wolfe Murray, Humanitarian Advisor, FCDO, expounded some of the issues of the shelter situation in Cox’s Bazar camps. The...