Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.

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

Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.

WRITTEN BY: DONALD BATCHELDER, ROBER CAIOLOA, STANTON DAVENPORT.

PUBLISHED BY: THE KITEREDDE CONSTRUCTION INSITUTUTE, UGANDA, AND THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING, USA, 1985.

AVAILABLE FROM: ROBERT CAIOLA, PROJECTS AND GRANTS DIVISION, THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING, KIPLING ROAD, BRATTLEBORO, VT. 05301, USA.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST: $US 8 PLUS $ 2 FOR MAILING

NUMBER OF PAGES: 115

In 1979, the Experiment in International Living and the Kiteredde Construction Institute, Uganda, planned a vocational training centre, specifically designed to train young men in construction skills using locally available materials. The programme focused on practical skills development, learning by doing and the preparation of trainees for jobs in the construction industry and in public works departments.

The training programme drew heavily on many years' knowledge of using local materials to make mortar, paints and plasters in the absence of manufactured and imported materials, of using efficient kilns and appropriate firing techniques, and of adapting masonry and carpentry to tropical building design. The reference manual was compiled as a direct result of the experience gained in the training programme in Uganda since 1980.

The purpose of the manual is to provide a basic understanding of the ways in which durable buildings can be constructed with local materials in the total or near-iota' absence of manufactured materials. It differs, therefore, from most technical manuals which assume a certain level of availability of manufactured materials. Is describes the use of local materials in low-cost, durable construction and self help housing. It is very readable and contains precise instructions and specifications which address every step in constructing a house or other building - brickmaking, selecting wood, pouring the foundation, bricklaying, roofing and installing windows and doors. A section is devoted to building materials and techniques, planning, management and basic mathematics and calculations for construction.