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Housing & Hazards has undertaken a variety of field programmes to clarify the issues and choices faced by low-income groups in Bangladesh.

This page provides the formal outputs of some of those programmes.  We will add to it as time permits....

Matts report

Rural Housing and Affordable Innovation

The report that started our programmes recorded a 9-month study by researcher Matt Carter during which he explored house construction practice and developed participatory action-research methodologies in northern Bangladesh.

Click on the image (left) to follow links to the report on this innovative work.

The H&H Rural Workshops:  Realising Potential

Sam Magne undertook a 6 month evaluation of the impacts of the 1997 Sam's reportworkshops in
1998-9, in the aftermath of a severe flood season. 


The
conclusions that Sam reached have shaped the work of H&H since then. 
They are outlined in
her paper in the 1999 Seminar. 


Or - New for 2010! - you can click on the image (left) for the full report.

Relevance of soil distribution to opportunities for stabilising mud

The clay content of the mud affects its potential use in forming cement-stabilised buildings.  In this presentation, H&H members Deryck Laming, Robert Hodgson and Mike Heath use published soil maps of Bangladesh to extrapolate from the H&H pilot areas and assess the scope for the national use of cement-mud.  This paper was presented by Deryck Laming to the International Conference on Geoscience for Global  Development in Dhaka in October 2009.