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The project has two parts. To develop a set of common performance specifications for a family shelter and to work towards developing a family shelter that fits the specifications developed.
The principal aim of this project was to build upon the development of performance standards and to design a frame compliant with the indicators and principles of these guidelines
This report addresses the relationship between the tent and the ground beneath the tent, using admittance theory modelled in MATLAB to facilitate analysis of thermal behaviour.
This paper therefore presents two main levels of analysis. The first level reports what
academic research says is happening about climate change and violent conflict. The second
level...
The Disaster Relief Shelter, known as DRS, is designed to serve as a responsive but also a
transitional shelter for victims of natural disasters in Indonesia.
The aim of this project was to optimise the design of the tent frame in line with Shelter Centre's criteria, specifically to have angle sections as the main member type, and to produce a tent...
As part of its Disaster Risk Reduction Programs, the United States Agency for International Development through the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) initiated a series of...
This report emerges from Ian Davis's visit to Haiti in November 2011, to examine progresswith reconstruction approximately twenty-two months after the earthquake. His visit onlylasted three...
An introduction to afternoon breakout groups was made explaining:
• Demand-led research involving humanitarian shelter specialists with knowledge of the real problems on the ground and the...
The state, on explicit behalf of the society, delegated(s) its prerogatives or rather powers to
the military to protect the former against any kind of external as well as internal threat or...