Practical Action Publishing
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Quality Assurance Guidelines for Building Construction
This document is intended to assist building workers (carpenters, masons etc…) in maintaining reliable standards in carrying out their respective work on a construction site.
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Foundations Using Dry Rubble Packing Technology
Dry rubble packing can be used for constructing foundations on good soil which has a high bearing capacity. This technical brief describes this technology in detail.
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Home Composting Systems
This technical brief describes about different home composting methods and use of home composting bins in detail.
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Roofing Options: Filler Slabs
Filler slabs, consume less concrete and steel as compared to conventional slabs, due to the use of less-heavy, low-cost filler material such as rejected Calicut tiles, clay pots and broken pieces of cement blocks. This technical brief describe the technology of filler slab.
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Solid Waste Management
An introduction to solid waste management.
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Tomato Farming
Tomato farming is one of the most popular farming practices that is being practiced by farmers around the world. This technical brief will help farmers on optimizing the production of tomatoes by giving attention at various stages of tomato farming. As tomato is one of the most popular crops that ca...
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Carrot Farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.
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Manual Drilling Compendium
Manual Drilling Compendium 2015 Technical Guidelines
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Walls- using interlocking stabilised soil blocks
Soil blocks have distinct advantages over hollow concrete blocks as well as fired bricks. It offers greater structural stability by having "keys" which interlock with other blocks when constructing walls and columns. This technical brief discusses about this technology.
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Plantation, production and use of biofuels at the community level
Plantation, production and use of bio fuels at the community level is a compilation of the results and processes undertaken in key sections of the project; harnessing bio fuel; plantation, oil expelling, processing and application.