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What If Civil Engineers Would Manage the Yolanda Funds?
How many nipa huts, container houses, or prefab houses could be built within the budget?
Housing
An Engineer’s Analysis: The Philippines’ Yolanda Housing Needs a Compromise
A civil engineer weighs in on the resettlement efforts of the National Housing Authority three years after the supertyphoon Yolanda.
Concrete Water Pipes as a Housing Solution? Why Not, This Company Says
Hooray for micro-living!
Architects Create A Foldable House That Withstands Earthquakes
It comes prefabricated, and only takes less than a day to completely install.
A Refugee Engineer Builds Houses Out of Plastic Bottles in Algeria
By filling the bottles with sand and by laying them side by side like bricks, Tateh found that he could build a sturdy house.