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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...
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....
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...
This project report from Pillar Practical Action, Bangladesh provides insights from the project Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R) which explored ways to harness the unique characteristics and ease...
This presentation covers three aspects of bamboo production and its use in sustainable construction: 1) traditional uses of bamboo architecture 2) challenges to make them mainstream, and 3) good...