Appropriate technologies

Housing projects carried out using appropriate technologies with local materials

Wood:

Four prefabricated construction systems

Wattle and Daub:

Two prefabricated construction systems

Rammed Earth:

Modular construction system

Earth Pumice-Stone:

Modular application

Bamboo:

Roofs Daub

Mud Brick:

Manual and stabilised system

Concrete Block:

Reinforced system 

Mixed:

Four prefabricated construction systems

Housing and basic infrastructure projects

Participation in housing, water and sanitation projects and development of community facilities in various stages in 13 countries (1976-2005)

Argentina

1 Materials bank for housing improvements. (1996-97)

Bangladesh

2 Drinking water and latrine projects. (1995)

Bolivia

300 House improvements. (1996-97)
50 Houses. (1995-97)
1 Programme (7 projects) drinking water provision. (1995)

Brazil

1,000 Houses in mud brick, wood and wattle and daub. (1991)

Dominican Republic

Pilot project of solid waste collection in urban areas of Sto. Domingo (2004)

Ecuador

43 Private residencies in different low cost housing techniques. (1978-1993)
250 Houses in wattle and daub. (1993)
450 Houses in timber, wattle and daub and mud brick. (1992)
6 Buildings in timber, wattle and daub, mud brick, wattle and daub. (1990)
28 Houses in wattle and daub. (1988)
15 Schools in timber. (1985)
100 Houses in timber. (1981-84)
25 Houses. (1982)
43 Residencies in different low cost technologies. (1978-1993)
100 Houses. (1976)

750 Flats in Medium Rise Buildings (2000-2005)

El Salvador

2.000 Houses. (1993)

3.600 Houses in four technologies (2001)

India

1.500 Houses. (1996-97)
4.500 Houses. (1996-97)

Mexico

Housing prototypes. (1996)

50 Houses (1999)

Nicaragua

470 Houses

Peru

862 interventions in housing improving and urban densification (2000-2005

Philippines

466 Houses various technologies (2001-2004)

South Africa

120 Houses. (1999)

Computer Skills

Thorough knowledge of computers and programs for PC (Windows XP) and Apple Macintosh.

Software:

• Affordability and cost recovery systems for low-cost housing. In use in 32 countries. (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese).

   

• Multi-technology budgeting system for low-cost construction. In use in 27 countries. (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese).

   

• Systems for site management (labour, materials and transport costs)

   

• Multi-projects financial follow up and control system.

   

• Computerised system for projects budgeting (EU, ODA, etc.)

   

• Computer applications for presentations, education and technological transfer.

Web Sites:

• Web sites production for: habit@t IEPALA, ISW, DW, ASDE, Africaucus, etc.

   

• World Habitat Guides in Internet Home, Techno, Info.

   

Main publications

• "World Habitat Guides" available trough Internet; Home, housing guide; Techno, construction technologies guide; & Info, water and sanitation guide". Barcelona, Spain. 2000 (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) Current preparation.

• "Trade-off Methodology for Low-Cost Housing Construction Technologies" Oxford, U.K. 1994 (English)

• "Information Systems for Low-Cost Housing Construction Technologies" Oxford, U.K. 1994 (English)

• "Improving Housing Through Community Self-Sufficiency" Oxford, U.K. 1994 (English)

• "14 Inovações para produção de moradia de baixo custo" Fortaleza, Brazil. 1992 (Portuguese)

• "Appropriate technologies and possibilities of prefabrication in Ecuador". Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. 1991 (Spanish, French and English)

Key referees

Germany
Günter Koschwitz, Director. KATE (Centre of Ecology and Developpment)
Blumenstrasse 19, 70182 Stuttgart, Germany.
Tel: (++49) 711 / 24 83 97 01 Fax: (++49)711 / 24 83 97 22 email: koschwitz@kate-stuttgart.org

Belgium
Bernard Declève, Director. H&D (Habitat et Développement)
Place du Levant 1, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Tel: (32-10) 472386 Fax: (32-10) 474544

Brazil
Sylvio Bezerra, Technical Director. COHAB (Companhia de Habitação do Ceará)
Avenida Santos Dumont, 1425 - 60150 Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil.
Tel: (55-85) 2447837 Fax: (55-85) 2615030

Ecuador
Mario Vásconez, Director. CIUDAD (Research Center)
Fernando Meneses 265 y Av. la Gasca, Quito, Ecuador.
Tel: (59-32) 234705 Fax: (59-32) 500322

email: mvasco@ecuanex.ciudad.net.ec

USA
Reinhard Goethert, Director, SINGUS, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
Tel: (617) 253-2402 Fax: (617) 253-8993

France
Serge Allou GRET (Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques)
213, rue La Fayette 75010, Paris, France.
Tel: (33 1) 40351314 Fax: (33 1) 40350839

allou@gret.org

United Kingdom
John Perry. Chairman Homeless International Projects Comitee & Director of Chartered Institute of Housing.
Octavia House, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8JP. U.K.
Tel: (44) 1203 694433 Fax: (44) 1203 695110

Email:  john.perry@cih.org

Nabeel Hamdi. Director. CENDEP (Centre for Development and Emergency Planning)
Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP, U.K.
Tel: (44) 0865-483413 Fax: (44) 0865-483298

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