Monday, August 26, 2013

Bottle School in the Phillipines - How To Build


http://www.inspirationgreen.com/plastic-bottle-schools.html

Bottle Schools



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Pepsi partnered with the My Shelter foundation to build this school house made of 9,000 plastic bottles in San Pablo, Philippines. Thousands of volunteers recruited by Pepsi -- collected the used bottles, helped to raise awareness of the Philippines classroom shortage and participated in building the structure. Pepsi's clean-up campaign website, sarapmagbago.com and lots more photos here: facebook.com/pepsisarapmagbago
Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales.




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After the 9,000 bottles were collected each 1.5 and 2-litre bottle was filled with adobe (sand, clay, and water with a bit of straw, twigs or manure thrown in). This machine made the filling much easier. Pic: 1.bp.blogspot.com Video: www.youtube.com




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The filled bottles set out to dry...




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The building process begins. Pic: www.micealiling.com




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String is used to keep the bottles in place as the adobe is being applied.
Pic: www.micealiling.com




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Ran out of caps...




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A bit more cement will be applied and smoothed out.
Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales




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Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales




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Almost there. The roof is made of compressed tetra packs.
Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales



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One wall is made of glass bottles.
Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales


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The inside walls were whitewashed.
Pic: campaignbrief.com www.bottleschoolproject.org



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Photo © Kristel Marie Fuentes Gonzales
www.bottleschoolproject.org




On the other side of the planet:



plastic bottle school

In Guatemala, volunteers with the help of the community, build plastic bottle school houses using a construction method pioneered by non-profit Pura Vida. The first plastic bottle school in Guatemala was started by volunteers in the Peace Corps and when they ran out of resources they called on Hug It Forward, an NGO that has now helped build numerous plastic bottle schools accross Guatemala. www.hugitforward.com



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First, the students and volunteers stuff the plastic bottles with insulating trash. Each student is asked to collect and fill at least 20 bottles. They stuff each bottle with plastic waste, such as styrofoam, snack wrappers and plastic bags - the more compacted, the sturdier the building blocks and the less garbage remaining on the streets. www.flickr.com




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Hugitforward builds bottle schools a different way.
www.hugitforward.com




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The stuffed bottles are tied with string to keep them in place. Pictured is the 5th Hug it Forward school, under construction in La Cereza, finished July 2010. www.hugitforward.com




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Bottles strung to chicken wire on one side. Now the chicken wire will be placed on this side as well. www.flickr.com




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Students stuff waste plastic in between the bottles. www.flickr.com




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The older students are called in for the higher work. www.flickr.com




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Applying cement to the inside of the building...
Students help sift the sand, mix and then apply cement that was donated. www.flickr.com



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And on the outside... Three layers of cement are applied. www.flickr.com




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Neater job = better trowel...
This is the 5th Hug it Forward school, under construction in La Cereza, finished July 2010. www.hugitforward.com




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This school used metal frames instead of cement posts.
www.hugitforward.com




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This one with a thatched roof. www.flickr.com




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The final look - you would never know the main ingredient if they did not leave cutouts... www.flickr.com




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A cutout. Just a reminder...
www.hugitforward.com



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Outside -- under construction. A bench surrounding a tree. www.flickr.com




Bottle Construction ‘How-to’ By Laura Kutner, Peace Corps/Guatemala
Source: www.peacecorps.gov

1. Make sure your community is involved and that you have a safe/approved location to build.
2. Make sure you have a budget and enough funding.
3. Collect and stuff bottles and gather lots of inorganic trash. Each bottle and all of the stuffing material has to be clean (rinsed in water) and dried. If anything is wet or dirty it will become moldy and start to smell. Organic trash, such as paper, cardboard, dirt, and rocks, cannot be used.
4. Set up a frame, foundation, and roof comprised of either wood, metal or cement columns.
5. Start putting chicken wire on the outside of the frame, then work on the inside in sections, putting in the bottles while you slowly connect the inside layer of chicken wire to the outside, securing the bottles tightly.
6. Continue section by section, until bottles are placed, then stuff all empty leftover spaces with inorganic trash.
7. Test the cement mixture (no limestone) to make sure it sticks. Then start placing the first layer of cement.
8. When this dries, start a second layer.
9. Finish with a third layer then lay the flooring.
10. Inaugurate and celebrate!


Hug it Forward's
"The Bottle School Manual" a step-by-step guide to building a bottle school, complete with pictures and diagrams of each stage of the construction process. www.bottleschools.com


Another organization working with plastic bottles in Latin America: www.longwayhomeinc.org
A plastic bottle latrine with composting toilet: catorcekt.wordpress.com


See IG's Plastic Bottle Homes page as well... inspirationgreen.org/plastic-bottle-homes


Hug It Forward - 3 Months of filming compressed into a 3 minute video. This is a good overview of the hard work, dedication, win-wins, and excitement surrounding Bottle Schools.

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Glass Bottle Kiln - Podere Casa Rosa - Italy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDT6ypQIl0



karinputschgrassi

The Glass Bottle Kiln is built with recycled wine bottles which are held together by sandy soil.
The firing, which is carried out with wood, must ascend gradually, taking from 8 to 10 hours, to arrive at a temperature of 800-900°C, the point at which the glass begins its fusion. Inside the kiln, the flames can be seen to rise slowly towards the chimney until exiting and dissolving in twirls of a thousand sparks.
The Glass Bottle Kiln had become a glass grotto with thousands of translucent stalactites
Thanks to all friends and helpers, how were involved in building and firing.
www.putsch-grassi.it

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Habitech International Building System - Interlocking Bricks and Blocks

Note: this looks like a terrific idea, making building blocks with soil and cement as legos. This company works with NGO's, Nonprofits and private sector builders. The entire building system is not very expensive to set up. Little building experience is needed for construction. Sounds perfect for Guatemala. What the difference between adobe and soil/cement mix? 

Also see UNESCO Best Practices / Self-Contained Housing Delivery System:
http://www.unesco.org/most/asia10.htm


Habitech International
1005/29 Soi 30 Prachachuen Road
10800

Bangkok, Thailand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGg9JBfX8Cs&feature=youtu.be




Low-cost construction interlocking soil cement blocks & bricks Habitech building system

Bricks interlock and do not need any mortar! Unskilled labor is sufficient; anyone can build their own house this way. The entire family can do this together. Groups can build their houses just like an old-fashioned barn raising! Anyone can lay the male and female component in place.


Low-Cost Housing - Construction - Materials - Habitech International - Interlocking Bricks and Blocks - Habitech International Building System is faster, easier, strong and durable reducing costs - Sustainable Green Technologies - Creates Jobs Generating Income and Revenues
http://www.habitech-international.com





Low-cost housing interlocking soil cement blocks & bricks Habitech-International


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Habitech International promotes three types of business packages (micro, small and medium to large-scale) to establish building material producers to supply either housing projects or the construction market in general.

All these packages are modeled on private sector enterprises, create
employment and provide income for those hired in the local population while generating profits making them sustainable, as they don’t pollute, degrade the environment or contribute to greenhouse effects.
As its name indicate the goal of Habitech is to research, develop and transfer housing technologies that can better respond to local housing demand of low income families, contribute to socioeconomic development in a sustainable way.

We have been addressing the problem of delivering affordable housing by developing building material and construction techniques that can be used by unskilled labour which while lowering the cost of housing procure good, solid and durable houses that can resist earthquakes, floods and typhoons. Houses built this way consistently undercut traditional and conventional construction system by as much as 30 to 50%.


We believe that local populations should be involved in the production of building materials and in the construction process itself. After all it is their houses that are built. Construction projects can be successful if they are rooted in the community, present innovative solutions and address livelihood by making it possible for some people to earn a living and generate income from these projects.

We have been instrumental in the establishment of building material production and distribution centers for in low-income settlements with the aim of reducing costs for self-help and mutual aid builders. We are aware that we are only facilitators, filling a gap that must legitimatize expectations giving access to technology, building capacity and propagating it through the raising of funds.

Habitech has transferred technology to many housing projects in cooperation with international and national institutions, NGOs, housing cooperatives, the private sector and low-income community groups. We participated in the delivery and establishment of more than one hundred and fifty production units in Afghanistan, Buthan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Fiji, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam.
Our approach has been recognized by the United Nations Human Settlements Program and the international community as contributing to housing and economic development through the transfer of technology and has been compiled in their Best Practices database for others to learn from and incorporate in their own work.

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