November 8th, 2013
After many years of rolling out the $5.5 billion remote Indigenous housing program, (SIHIP being the Northern Territory part of the national program) the first assessment of what has been…
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November 4th, 2013
Toilets we are told must become an aspirational object. People must be taught to aspire to owning a toilet because by adding the toilet to their increasing array of possessions…
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November 4th, 2013
Lets start by considering the very positive side of all those who help. Consider each village family (like the one in the photo) that makes a cash contribution equivalent to…
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November 3rd, 2013
the wash and toilet facility under construction The above ground,visible wash and toilet building is the part people see and use daily, but what lurks below the often water soaked…
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November 1st, 2013
The Sanitation Project in Bangladesh proceeds well despite a very late wet season and a high water table that made progress difficult. The key part of this project, agreed by…
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October 27th, 2013
First there was the project work in Nepal (January 2013) – to make a kit for the local team to help them site all the components of the toilet and…
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October 27th, 2013
Extracts from the design brief PREAMBLE… not far away, young children in Australia are not having a bath; there are too many houses with no proper place for young children…
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October 25th, 2013
Unitec hosted a rewarding day in Auckland, New Zealand, convening a Social Housing Forum by presenting talks from a broad range of people and adding an enthusiastic and inquisitive audience….
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October 25th, 2013
The success of this first UPK music collection, with song themes including The Germ Song, Septic Tank song and the most famous the Shower Block Song, is now well documented….
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October 25th, 2013
Global Studio has been invited to offer a session on “Addressing informalityand or poverty through education and practice” at the Union of InternationalArchitects Congress in Durban next August. If you…
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October 25th, 2013
A new idea to mix water and soap to assist hand washing. See the video here. Read more about the system here.
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October 3rd, 2013
Healthabitat Director Dr Paul Torzillo ran the launch with talks from The Fred Hollows Foundation CEO Brian Doolan, Dr Lilon Bandler from the Sydney Medical School, Dr Norman Swan, The Building…
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