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Sustainable Construction and the Built Environment
These technical briefs focus on low cost approaches related to sustainable construction and materials.
Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are freely available to people in the developing world. They provide detailed technical information on a variety of subjects ranging from how to make jams and pickles to how to build a flood-proof house or an aerial ropeway.
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Sustainable homes (information sheet) 498.16 KB
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Hydraulic lime (information sheet) 183.29 KB
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Lime (information sheet) 247.72 KB
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Pozzolanas (information sheet) 238.31 KB
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Transitional shelter (information sheet) 237.64 KB