Practical Action Publishing
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Quality assurance checklist for house construction in disaster prone areas
This document is intended mostly to help building contractors and site supervisors to maintain reliable standards in order to ensure that the final product would be of durable quality. It is hoped that users of this information will contribute to the construction of houses that will successfully wit...
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Understanding Equid Welfare Issues
A comprehensive technical guide to understanding and dealing with equid welfare and health issues from The Brooke
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Basic Beekeeping 1:6
Manual 1:6 looks at how to set up a good apiary
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Evaporative Cooling
Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.
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The Boulder Concept in Building Walls
This brief was written BY the Building Advisory Service and Information Network (BASIN) providing information resources on low-cost building technologies.
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Mushroom Growing
Developing commercial cultivation of mushrooms is growing throughout Africa. This brief focuses on this practice in Zimbabwe.
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Solar Drying
Drying using sunshine - a brief description of the basic principles behind it and how to determine the rate of drying.
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Serpentine Solar Water Heating: Guidelines for Fabrication
The Serpentine is a solar thermal collector developed as part of a low cost water heating system by the AIDG for households in Xela, Guatemala.
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Clay Tile Manufacture
A guide to clay tile manufacture, covering tools, factory siting, operations, budgeting and financing the project.
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Wheelbarrow
Engineering drawings detailing how to make a wheelbarrow.