TY - GEN
T1 - Proceedings of the second ANDROID doctoral school in disaster resilience 2014
AU - Flores Salas, Alicia
AU - Shklovski, Edited By: Srinath Perera Hans Jorgen Henriksen Alexandra Revez Irina
PY - 2014/2/5
Y1 - 2014/2/5
N2 - ABSTRACTIn recent decades natural catastrophes have had a major impact on countries throughout the world and have left behind an engineering challenge; how to build resilient and sustainable housing quickly and cheaply. This challenge offers the opportunity to test materials, techniques, and procedures for construction that have been developed in the last 30 years. Consequently, a prototype dwelling of 45.5 square metres, using W Panels (WPs) and the labour of affected people under the supervision of construction professionals, is proposed to switch toward a new construction system immediately after overcoming the emergency phase post-disasters. A theoretical approach was carried out to analyse the substitution of traditional building materials by WPs as well as the skilled labour by unskilled people from communities affected. A literature review was also carried out around housing programs used to build recovery housing after the Tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004. The findings of the analysis suggest the WPs as an alternative for housing recovery, since using them can save up to 45% of the total cost compared to traditional construction materials. It was also found that community participation plays an important role, and participation is fundamental to saving time and money post-disasters.
AB - ABSTRACTIn recent decades natural catastrophes have had a major impact on countries throughout the world and have left behind an engineering challenge; how to build resilient and sustainable housing quickly and cheaply. This challenge offers the opportunity to test materials, techniques, and procedures for construction that have been developed in the last 30 years. Consequently, a prototype dwelling of 45.5 square metres, using W Panels (WPs) and the labour of affected people under the supervision of construction professionals, is proposed to switch toward a new construction system immediately after overcoming the emergency phase post-disasters. A theoretical approach was carried out to analyse the substitution of traditional building materials by WPs as well as the skilled labour by unskilled people from communities affected. A literature review was also carried out around housing programs used to build recovery housing after the Tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004. The findings of the analysis suggest the WPs as an alternative for housing recovery, since using them can save up to 45% of the total cost compared to traditional construction materials. It was also found that community participation plays an important role, and participation is fundamental to saving time and money post-disasters.
KW - community participation
KW - recovery housing
KW - resilient
KW - sustainability and W Panels.
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 3
T3 - ANDROID Residential Doctoral School “The lightweight W Panels: an option to build sustainable housing post-disaster”
BT - ANDROID Residential Doctoral School “The lightweight W Panels: an option to build sustainable housing post-disaster”
CY - UK
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