Standards and Specifications for Local Building Materials

doi:10.3362/9781780444314

Standards and Specifications for Local Building Materials

Report of the ARSO/CSC/UNCHS workshop, Nairobi, 16-24 March 15/12/1987

Report on the deliberations from a regional workshop on standards and specifications for local building materials, dealing with regional co-operation, methodologies for establishing standards and procedures and quality control.

Published: 1987
Pages: 52

eBook: 9781780444314

Paperback: 9780946688791


I Standards and specifications for soil blocks, v
burnt-clay bricks, lime, pozzolanas and fibreconcrete
roofing United Nations Centre for
Human Settlements (Habitat)
II Methodology in standardization: standards and 59
codes of practice for local building materials
International Organization for Standarization
(ISO)
III Methodology in standardization and formulation 67
and application of codes of practice African
Regional Organization for Standardization
(ARSO)
IV Establishment of regional data bases and a 81
programme of information exchange on
indigenous building materials African Regional
Organization for Standardization (ARSO) *
V The local building materials challenge: the 95
need for sustained research and development in
the promotion of standards and specifications
Commonwealth Science Council (CSC)
VI Standards and specifications: an integrated 105
approach to the development of local building
materials for low-cost housing United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).