Housing without Houses

Nabeel Hamdi

This book presents a wide range of innovative ideas and practical methods for housing, together with illustrative examples and actual projects. Its methods are targeted to housing production in places where resources are scarce, demand is high, urgency is acute, and where change and uncertainty are...

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...

Low-Cost Load-Carrying Devices

Ron Dennis, Alan Smith

The major transport task facing most poor people is to move relatively small loads over short distances, usually off-road. This book describes basic transport technologies such as shoulder poles and back-frames, wheelbarrows and handcarts, carriers and panniers for bicycles, and load-carrying pannie...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Communicating Building For Safety

Eric Dudley, Ane Haaland

Presents the principles of communicating the information needed for building improvement. Covers the uses of different media to convey information and describes the use of graphic design for education.