Ressourcen Stichwort: Housing

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  1. Building a Cyclone House

    28.01.2022 This book describes the method and materials used to build a storm-proof ‘cyclone house’ in Vanuatu. An appendix offers the opportunity for further discussion of the environmental issues it raises. It uses material from an article by Jon Letman, sponsored by the Judith Neilson Institute, courtesy...
    Design & Construction Housing

  2. Reader's Digest Book of Skills and Tools

    01.01.1993 A comprehensive, easy-to-use, do-it-yourself guide covers everything about tools, hardware, and building materials, from basic skills to advanced techniques, in more than two thousand photographs and step-by-step diagrams.
    Do-It-Yourself work Tools Home Renovation Housing Maintenance and Re... Home Management

  3. 30 Energy-Efficient Houses... You Can Build

    Floor plans, drawings, specifications, and descriptions are provided for efficiently and ecologically designed family houses, studio livingspaces, hillside homes, and underground and passive solar-tempered houses. 316 pgs, illustrations, pictures
    Energy Conservation Design & Construction Housing Handbook Resources

  4. USAID SEG Housing

    Shelter is a basic human need. Thus, providing adequate housing is a fundamental development objective but it is also highly complex. Successful housing activities can rarely be isolated from the development of associated infrastructure—e.g., water, sanitation, transport—and social services. The...
    Housing

  5. Illustrated housebuilding

    For those who need a lot of help in building their own home, not only how, but how much it will cost and how long it will take.
    Wooden-Frame Houses House Construction Architecture Domestic Building Dwellings Housing

  6. A Simple, Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity

    Readers will be moved by this exciting story of real-life good Samaritans in this uplifting story of Habitat for Humanity. Fuller tells how he came to be touched with the needs of others for affordable housing. He incorporates testimonies from celebrities - Jimmy Carter, Tom Brokaw, Paul Newman...
    Habitat for Humanity Housing Human Services