Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Building with stabilised soil blocks

Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements

		Introduction
		World neighbors in action
		Human settlement managers training programme - handbook for the organization and design of courses
		Bridging the gap: A participatory approach to health and nutrition education
		Self-evaluation: Ideas for participatory evaluation of rural community development projects
		Local authority supervisor training program, Kenya
		Urban housing and community development course
		Teaching rural community development
		Organization and management of field education
		Project management program Harare, Zimbabwe
		Primer taller de capacitacion para mujeres dirigentes de organizaciones femininas en el districto de San Martin de porres
		Getting the community into the act: 72 participatory activities for field workers and trainers
		Board of director's course: Instructor's manual and handouts
		Tecnicas educativas
		Women and graphics: A beginner's kit
		The tribune: A women and development quarterly
		How to perform in front of an audience
		Audiovisual communication handbook
		Dialogar para construir, diseno participativo en barrios populares de Bogota
		Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.
		1. Como leer un plano - 2. Mejoramiento poblacional
		1. Sistema constructivo 'bend' - 2. Prefabricacion, sistema 'bend'
		1. El replanted - 2. Como construir una vivienda con calicanto - 3. Como construir una vivienda con bloques de concreto - 4. Como construir una vivienda con cinva-ram - 5. Como construir una vivienda con horcones y concreto
		Small-scale production of lime for buildings
		Making building blocks with the cinva-ram block press.
		Building with stabilised soil blocks
		Small-scale production of local building materials
		Manual para la construccion de vivienda con adobe
		Casas de tierra, Minka no. 9, october 1982
		Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.
		Sistematizacion de una practica tecnica en vivienda social
		Manual de autoconstruccion
		Manual de construcao moradias nas aldeias comunais.
		When you build a house: a manual of construction details for Caribbean houses with emphasis on protection from strong winds
		Cooler in summer/warmer in winter: How to improve your shha house
		Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing
		Affordable sanitation
		Making your house safe against strong winds
		A campaign plan for tinsa valley
		Cooperative housingaffordability and related technical solutions
		Co-operatives: the affordable housing alternative
		Managing housing co-ops' money
		Estructura interna de una cooperativa de vivienda: Pobladores y educacion no. 1
		Co-operative housing, a handbook for effective operations
		Co-op housing - The best move we ever made
		Ideas on proposal writing and financial/technical assistance
		Information and training materials for low-cost water supply and sanitation
		Self-help housing improvements for lowest-income communities: Motivators' and trainers' guide
		Manual para proyectos de ayuda mutua

Building with stabilised soil blocks

AUTHOR: DAVID J. T. WEBB

PRODUCED BY: COMMONWEALTH ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATION (CAA) PROJECTS LTD., AND THE BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT, 1986.

AVAILABLE FROM: THE BUILDING CENTRE, 26 STORE STREET, LONDON WC1E 78T, ENGLAND.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST:

This tape-slide show is part of a set of three audiovisual programmes on shelter provision which are intended for professional advisers to governments and technical aid agencies and for training programmes for members of construction teams. The tape-slide show is made up of 24 colour slides, a cassette and a booklet, containing the written text of the cassette, a reference section for further reading and a list of information centres worldwide where stablized-soil products have been used.

This tape-slide show looks at one of the oldest building materials known to man - soil - and considers some of the techniques which can improve its natural characteristics and extend its use as a building material in developing countries.

It begins by showing how adobe blocks have been used in building and what are some of the short-comings of this type of construction, e.g. sun-dried mud blocks chip easily, crack or are open to rainwater erosion if they are not well protected. The development of different soil-block-making machines is summarized, and details are given of the BREPAK machine, pointing out the improvements in strength and durability which have been achieved over previous models of block-making machines. Some of the advantages of the BREPAK machine for use in developing countries are given.

A full explanation of the equipment needed and the types of soil and soil tests that are required to produce stabilized blocks with the BREPAK machine are given.