Practical Answers

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  Solid Waste Management

  An introduction to solid waste management.

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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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  How to identify building defects

  This presentation provides some guidelines to identify building defects in construction industry.

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  Handpump Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Handpump standardisation is the formal or informal mechanism that governs the varieties of community handpumps used within a particular country. In a handful of countries this also includes stand ard handpump designs. With over a million handpumps in sub Saharan Africa and new installations every da...

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  Stone Arch Bridges - Chapter 2

  Design of stone arch bridges.

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  Requirement to demand Organic fertilizer Promotion

  Requirement to demand: Promoting Organic Fertilizer in Bangladesh, exploring required Knowledge support for major stakeholders in relation to creating a viable business model for OF production and marketing at scale.

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  Cook Stoves in Nepal

  Renewable energy practices in Nepal

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  Clay Pot Cooler – Cooling Food Without Electricity

  This document has been produced based on the experience of Movement Verein working in Burkina Faso, West Africa on the evaporative cooler for food preservation.

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  Biogas Energy in Nepal

  Renewable energy practices in Nepal

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  Solar Distillation

  The technical brief contains the information on solar distillation process that provides clean and safe drinking water to people living in areas with less access to it. Solar distillation is the process of removing salts and other impurities using the energy of the sun to get pure water for drinking...