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Since the mid-1970s, new community-based approaches to recontruction after disaster have met with increasing success. Programmes to train local builders in safe construction can help to protect the population of areas prone to earthquakes, strong winds, floods and other sudden natural hazards.
Until now much of the knowledge about safer building and post-disaster reconstruction has been confined to technical specialists. To extend this knowledge to possible implementors, the Overseas Development Administration of the British Government has commissioned a project to develop a number of publications concerning the construction of low-cost houses in hazard-prone countries.
The project, being carried out jointly by Cambridge Architectural Research and Oxford Polytechnic Disaster Management Centre, involves reviewing recent projects of builder training and public education to provide practical guidelines on how to set up and run training and education programmes in safe building. The guidelines produced will also contain details of better construction techniques for specific building types as well as principles for the communication of technical messages to householders and local builders. The publications will be organised so that the hard-pressed nonspecialist development worker and Government official may rapidly get an overview of the issues involved in running such programmes, while also having access to resource documents which can be called upon when disaster strikes.
When the publications are available in early 1993, the key summary document will be distributed free of charge to Non-Governmental Development Organisations, Government agencies, International Organisations and others involved in training, technical dissemination or building projects. Institutions wishing to be added to the project mailing list should write to the address below. The project would particularly like to hear from anyone with any experience of building improvement projects, community-based education and training or hazard-resistant construction.
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