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CMU/INTERTECT Emergency Shelter Team Reports : The 1977 International Disaster Preparedness Seminar
(INTERTECTAdvanced Building Studies Program, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1977)
Issues Related to the Provision of Emergency Shelter in Winter Conditions
(INTERTECT, 1977)
The purpose of this paper is to identify and clarify the salient issues and options related to emergency shelter provision in winter conditions, based on the experience in Turkey in 1976 where eastern Turkey was struck by ...
How Houses can better Resist High Wind
(Center of Building Technology, 1977)
This guide presents to designers, builders, government and private building authorities, and building owners and occupants a series of effective methods for improving the resistance of new and existing buildings against ...
Strategies and Approaches which can be used by Voluntary Agencies to Provide Post Disaster Shelter and Housing
(Appropriate Reconstruction Training and Information Centre, 1977)
An INTERTECT publication reproduced by: Appropriate Reconstruction Training and Information Centre (Artic).
Special Publication No. 3, Ticks And Tickborne Diseases, III. Checklist Of Families, Genera, Species, And Subspecies Of Ticks
(United States Government Printing Office, 1977-05)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...