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Post-Disaster and Related Low-Cost Housing
(INTERTECTEmergency Shelters Working Party Advanced Building Studies Program, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1976)
Report on Training Program for Topographic Survey, Nueva Canaan, Bolivia
(INTERTECT, 1978-11)
Seawalls: An Overview Research Paper
(INTERTECT, 1977-12)
Seawalls are used primarily to protect areas in the rear of the beach against the effect of heavy storm action. They are necessarily massive and expensive. Seawalls limit the shoreward movement of the high water line, but ...
Refugee Camps and Camp Planning. Report I: Camp Planning. Report II: Camp Improvements. Report III:Camp Development Programming. Report IV: Camp Layouts. Refugee Camp Planning: The State of the Art.
Report I outlines the various stages of development that refugee camps will normally follow during the course of a refugee crisis. The report is divided into three sections, each outlining a particular type of camp that ...
Issues Related to the Provision of Emergency Shelter in Drought Conditions
(INTERTECT, 1977)
In the immediate past, as well as in the present, there have been major drought relief operations in Africa. Although the area most affected has been those countries in the Sahel region, others such as Kenya, Tanzania,Ethiopia ...
Development of Improved Design Criteria for Low-Rise Buildings in Developing Countries to Better Resist the Effects of Extreme Winds
(National Bureau of Standards, 1973)
Techniques for Sulfur Surface Bonding for Low Cost Housing
(South-West Research Institute, 1975)
A Report on the OXFAM Sanitation Units in Bangladesh, February 1977Report on the OXFAM Sanitation Units in Bangladesh, February 1977
(INTERTECT, 1977-02)
The criteria upon which the OXFAM Sanitation Unit was developed were described in the July 1975 OXFAM technical paper entitled "OXFAM’s Sanitation Unit". Those criteria can be summarized as follows: 1. The provision of an ...
Refugee Camps and Camp Planning. Camp Development Programming. Report No. 3.
The Camp Development Program (CDP) is a vital link between the Camp’s Master Plan and the actual construction of facilities recommended by the plan. If a detailed CDP is not undertaken before construction, there is a high ...