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The Papua New Guinea National Disaster Centre established by the Disaster Management Act of 1984. This website (last updated in 2010) aims at informing Papuan communities about emergency...
A guide to clay tile manufacture, covering topics from tools, factory siting, operation and budgeting and financing the project.
Based on experiences after the Alto Mayo earthquake of 1990. Issues addressed include rebuilding from safe, indigenous materials and participation of the community.
Blacksmithing transforms metals in its physical structure and appearance by heating and hammering. In his brief, materials are restricted ferrous metals, that is, the range of irons and steels....
Describes some of the practical considerations when building walls with stabilised soil and is available through the Janathakshan website developed by Practical Action South Asia. This technology...
Finishing a house with mud plaster when the house itself has been built with earth is a natural, complementary technique, but mud plasters can also be used for buildings of stone and fired brick...
Finishing a house with mud plaster when the house itself has been built with earth is a natural, complementary technique, but mud plasters can also be used for buildings of stone and fired brick...
Gypsum [has many uses] including making writing chalk, soil conditioning for agriculture, making moulds for pottery, as an additive in the manufacture of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), in...
Here 'making of stabilised soil blocks' deals with the two main problems that can happen with earth buildings; stabilisation and compaction.
How to make a jack plane using simple tools.