Rural Building Course Volume 1

Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building products, tables of figures and a glossary.

Rural Building Course Volume 3

From foundations, walls, doors and windows, to roofs, plaster and render, locks and painting.

Rural Building Course Volume 4

A training book for drawing techniques related to the subjects covered in the other volumes of the Rural Building Course, and general drawing training.

Lime and Alternative Binders In East Africa

Elijah Agevi, Otto Ruskulis, Theo Schilderman

The demand for permanent housing requires production of binders to be significantly increased. A range of binders, especially lime, lime-pozzolana or special earths, can be more appropriate to certain types of building such as housing. Alternatives such as lime offer tremendous potential in reducing...

Developing Building for Safety Programmes

Yasemin Aysan, Andrew Clayton, Alistair Cory, Ian Davis

Developing Building for Safety Programmes summarizes the basic principles to be considered in the planning and implementation of community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. Including case studies illustrating suggestions made. These guidelines for saf...

Building with Bamboo

Jules Janssen

This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programmes testing bamboo. The author shows how bamboo can be harvested, seasoned and jointed to form walls, doors and windows, roofs, floors, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges, and how to weav...

How to Make Low-Cost Building Blocks

Malcolm Davis

With the right soil, correctly prepared and compressed, it is possible to halve the amount of cement used for block-making - a useful saving. This manual shows how to make and use strong blocks from soil, from the initial planning to the end product.

Earth Construction

Hugo Houben, Hubert Guillard

A comprehensive and illustrated handbook which will be essential reading for anyone involved in construction. Earth is extremely versatile and cheap but users must have a proper knowledge of its real potential in order to use it to its best effect. There are virtually no limitations on the use of th...

Building For Safety Compendium

Andrew Clayton, Ian Davis

Compendium of key publications, organizations, information sources and funding agencies for building improvement programmes. Over 100 selected publications and institutions.

Roads are not Enough

Jonathan Dawson

This book traces the evolution of transport theory and policy and the new 'needs led' approach, with examples from recent studies. The authors suggest areas of intervention to reduce the transport burden on the rural poor.