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Physical, Mechanical, and Other Properties of Selected Secondary Species in Surinam, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Gabon, Philippines, and Malaysia
(Office of Science and Technology Agency for International Development, 1973)
This report is a partial response to a Participating Agency Service Agreement between the Agency for International Development and the USDA, Forest Service (PASA Control No. TA(AJ)2-73) and concerns a study of the factors ...
CMU/INTERTECT Emergency Shelter Team Reports : The 1977 International Disaster Preparedness Seminar
(INTERTECTAdvanced Building Studies Program, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1977)
Disasters and the Small Dwelling : The State of the Art
(INTERTECT, 1978)
In discussions of disasters, emergency shelter and post-disaster housing, there is often a tendency to forget that disasters are more than events which cause death, injuries and destruction to property. In order to understand ...
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 ...
Proposals for an Emergency or Permanent Rural Community Utility Development and Sanitation Program
(INTERTECTTrident Engineering Company, 1975-10)
This proposal is aimed at a multi-phase program (1) to investigate completely the feasibility of having simple water, sewer and electrical systems capable of assisting to provide, protect and improve, the health and welfare ...
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 ...
Proposed Minimum Standards for Permanent Low-Cost Housing and for the Improvement of Existing Substandard Areas.
(Office of International Affairs Department of Housing and Urban Development., 1975-05)
Second Beginnings
(Sehlat Press, 1978)
Saurian Brandy Digest Issue 14
(Sehlat Press, 1978)