Existing Housing Solutions
College of Engineering and Computer Science
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STUDENT ID NUMBER: U5036850
Title: Existing Housing Solutions
Team Name: The A Team
Team Number: 22113
Prac Group 5
COURSE NAME: Discovering Engineering
COURSE CODE: ENGN1211
DUE DATE: 02/04/11 (Extention Granted)
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Introduction
The purpose of this assignment is to discuss possible solutions to the housing crises in the small community of
Devikulam in Tamil Nadu, India. I am going to present information involving a few different solutions using
basic building techniques and methods of construction.
The simplest methods used in building houses will probably turn out to be the best. Tamil Nadu is a poor region
of India, and so the majority of the work should be able to be carried of by the local villages, if not all of it.
This in turn will ensure that they will be able to maintain any structures built, long into the future. This also
applies to the materials, which should be available locally. To ensure the structures can be built and maintained
the necessary materials must be available to do so.
The A-Team
The information I will present is a sub-set of a larger project that I am involved in. I am part of a team, known
as The A-Team and we have decided to try and solve the building crisis in Tamil Nadu, India..
Our task is to work out a way to build cheap sustainable houses so that the local villagers can build, repair and
carry out, any ongoing maintainance required to the structures. Local building supplies will be the best materials
to be used, due to their availability and the price of obtaining them.
These houses need to protect the villages from all elements of the local weather, while also contributing to
improving the local community of Devikulam and possibly surrounding communities.
Once the local community of Devikulam has been shown new ways of building and build new structures of
their own, that will improve their lives. They will then be able to pass that knowledge on to surrounding areas, |
