Thomas Williamson, Ali Rajabipour, C. Kutay, Graham Gust, Mark Fudge
Abstract—Construction of houses in remote communities faces a range of challenges, many of which would be reduced by the involvement of local community members during the construction. Remote housing demand is high and under-resourcing in existing houses impacts on the health of the occupants. This research investigates and evaluates ways to improve community engagement in remote housing projects. Builders with experience delivering remote housing projects were asked to provide insight relating to the potential training and involvement of community members during construction. It was found that builders have major challenges with work ethics, poor numeracy and literacy and language barrier in remote areas which hinder community engagement in remote projects. Some building techniques such as slab on ground and steel wall framing were found more effective for community engagement. Results also show that training of community members could be improved by setting benchmark goals to be achieved throughout a project. This means there is an opportunity for housing projects in remote communities to improve on essential training and employment through better involvement of local community members during construction, in turn this will lead to better maintenance and understanding of houses.
{"title":"Training & Community Involvement for Remote Housing Projects in Australia Northern Territory","authors":"Thomas Williamson, Ali Rajabipour, C. Kutay, Graham Gust, Mark Fudge","doi":"10.36479/jhe.vi0.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/jhe.vi0.197","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract—Construction of houses in remote communities faces a range of challenges, many of which would be reduced by the involvement of local community members during the construction. Remote housing demand is high and under-resourcing in existing houses impacts on the health of the occupants. This research investigates and evaluates ways to improve community engagement in remote housing projects. Builders with experience delivering remote housing projects were asked to provide insight relating to the potential training and involvement of community members during construction. It was found that builders have major challenges with work ethics, poor numeracy and literacy and language barrier in remote areas which hinder community engagement in remote projects. Some building techniques such as slab on ground and steel wall framing were found more effective for community engagement. Results also show that training of community members could be improved by setting benchmark goals to be achieved throughout a project. This means there is an opportunity for housing projects in remote communities to improve on essential training and employment through better involvement of local community members during construction, in turn this will lead to better maintenance and understanding of houses.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":" 570","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141127508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy access for all is the seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) put forth by the United Nations in 2015. This initiative has been taken on by many non-governmental organizations (NGOs), national governments and communities alike. Traditional approaches to cooking often rely on three-stone fires (or other open wood fires). The smoke from these open cooking fires is known to cause significant negative health impacts, thus access to cleaner energy sources is especially important for to improve cooking conditions. One alternative cooking fuel is biogas, which has the advantages of smoke reduction, and decreased reliance on and impact of firewood collection. In this article, we develop a method of analyzing the feasibility of biogas projects for rural communities. The method enables both evaluation of an ideal digester design for specific environments and determination of the scale, cost, and yields of a biogas plant. For example, in a cooking application 1-m3 of biogas can be compared to 1.3 kg of firewood or approximately 10 minutes not spent collecting firewood. Such evaluation is critical to help communities and organizations determine whether or not this type of project is ideal for their environments. All too often, development project concepts are funded prematurely, before the realization that the implemented technology does not function properly or is unsustainable for specific applications. The feasibility analysis we describe is a contribution to the literature because it provides a condensed, simplified resource that enables development practitioners and communities to readily evaluate whether or not a biogas energy solution is appropriate and sustainable for their setting prior to investing valuable resources and time into implementation.
{"title":"Community-Level Resource Development and Management, Part 2: A Transferable Approach to Feasibility Analysis for Biogas as an Alternative Cooking Fuel","authors":"M. Richardson, K. Sharp","doi":"10.36479/jhe.v7i1.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/jhe.v7i1.132","url":null,"abstract":"Energy access for all is the seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) put forth by the United Nations in 2015. This initiative has been taken on by many non-governmental organizations (NGOs), national governments and communities alike. Traditional approaches to cooking often rely on three-stone fires (or other open wood fires). The smoke from these open cooking fires is known to cause significant negative health impacts, thus access to cleaner energy sources is especially important for to improve cooking conditions. One alternative cooking fuel is biogas, which has the advantages of smoke reduction, and decreased reliance on and impact of firewood collection. In this article, we develop a method of analyzing the feasibility of biogas projects for rural communities. The method enables both evaluation of an ideal digester design for specific environments and determination of the scale, cost, and yields of a biogas plant. For example, in a cooking application 1-m3 of biogas can be compared to 1.3 kg of firewood or approximately 10 minutes not spent collecting firewood. Such evaluation is critical to help communities and organizations determine whether or not this type of project is ideal for their environments. All too often, development project concepts are funded prematurely, before the realization that the implemented technology does not function properly or is unsustainable for specific applications. The feasibility analysis we describe is a contribution to the literature because it provides a condensed, simplified resource that enables development practitioners and communities to readily evaluate whether or not a biogas energy solution is appropriate and sustainable for their setting prior to investing valuable resources and time into implementation. ","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46734361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Appropriate open defecation free (ODF) sustainability interventions are key to further mobilise communities to consume sanitation and hygiene products and services that enhance household’s quality of life and embed household behavioural change for heathier communities. This study aims to develop a logistic regression derived risk algorithm to estimate a 12-month ODF slippage risk and externally validate the model in an independent data set. ODF slippage occurs when one or more toilet adequacy parameters are no longer present for one or more toilets in a community. Data in the Zambia district health information software for water sanitation and hygiene management information system for Chungu and Chabula chiefdoms was used for the study. The data was retrieved from the date of chief Chungu and Chabula chiefdoms' attainment of ODF status in October 2016 for 12 months until September 2017 for the development and validation data sets respectively. Data was assumed to be missing completely at random and the complete case analysis approach was used. The events per variables were satisfactory for both the development and validation data sets. Multivariable regression with a backwards selection procedure was used to decide candidate predictor variables with p < 0.05 meriting inclusion. To correct for optimism, the study compared amount of heuristic shrinkage by comparing the model’s apparent C-statistic to the C- statistic computed by nonparametric bootstrap resampling. In the resulting model, an increase in the covariates ‘months after ODF attainment’, ‘village population’ and ‘latrine built after CLTS’, were all associated with a higher probability of ODF slippage. Conversely, an increase in the covariate ‘presence of a handwashing station with soap’, was associated with reduced probability of ODF slippage. The predictive performance of the model was improved by the heuristic shrinkage factor of 0.988. The external validation confirmed good prediction performance with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.85 and no significant lack of fit (Hosmer-Lemeshow test: p = 0.246). The results must be interpreted with caution in regions where the ODF definitions, culture and other factors are different from those asserted in the study.
{"title":"Development and external validation of a logistic regression derived algorithm to estimate a 12-month post open defecation free slippage risk","authors":"W. Simangolwa","doi":"10.36479/jhe.v7i1.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/jhe.v7i1.139","url":null,"abstract":"Appropriate open defecation free (ODF) sustainability interventions are key to further mobilise communities to consume sanitation and hygiene products and services that enhance household’s quality of life and embed household behavioural change for heathier communities. This study aims to develop a logistic regression derived risk algorithm to estimate a 12-month ODF slippage risk and externally validate the model in an independent data set. ODF slippage occurs when one or more toilet adequacy parameters are no longer present for one or more toilets in a community. Data in the Zambia district health information software for water sanitation and hygiene management information system for Chungu and Chabula chiefdoms was used for the study. The data was retrieved from the date of chief Chungu and Chabula chiefdoms' attainment of ODF status in October 2016 for 12 months until September 2017 for the development and validation data sets respectively. Data was assumed to be missing completely at random and the complete case analysis approach was used. The events per variables were satisfactory for both the development and validation data sets. Multivariable regression with a backwards selection procedure was used to decide candidate predictor variables with p < 0.05 meriting inclusion. To correct for optimism, the study compared amount of heuristic shrinkage by comparing the model’s apparent C-statistic to the C- statistic computed by nonparametric bootstrap resampling. In the resulting model, an increase in the covariates ‘months after ODF attainment’, ‘village population’ and ‘latrine built after CLTS’, were all associated with a higher probability of ODF slippage. Conversely, an increase in the covariate ‘presence of a handwashing station with soap’, was associated with reduced probability of ODF slippage. The predictive performance of the model was improved by the heuristic shrinkage factor of 0.988. The external validation confirmed good prediction performance with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.85 and no significant lack of fit (Hosmer-Lemeshow test: p = 0.246). The results must be interpreted with caution in regions where the ODF definitions, culture and other factors are different from those asserted in the study.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this project was to research the timber used by Engineers without Borders (EWB) groups in the Joyabaj region of Guatemala. This project aimed to investigate the species of wood, evaluate the quality by assessing the distribution of timber grades, and determine mechanical properties. The results will aid EWB groups in the design of wood structures in the Joyabaj region of Guatemala.Samples were collected for species investigation and mechanical testing. Species investigation was triangulated from interviews with the sawmill owner, construction foreman, testing by the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, and comparisons to literature. The results were inconclusive and indicated multiple species were intermixed at the sawmill with no distinction made when purchased. Timber quality was evaluated by using a visual grading guide developed by the authors to assess the distribution of grades within a large order of lumber. Static bending and compression parallel to grain tests were conducted to obtain modulus of rupture, compression parallel to grain, and modulus of elasticity. Specific gravity was also obtained.The results indicate that three different species were collected. Ninety per cent (90%) of the timber was No. 3 or better and 50% to 80% was No. 2 or better depending on the size. Clear wood testing values were similar to those of Eastern White Pine. Structural design should be performed based on National Design Specification (NDS) design values for a No. 3 or No. 2 Eastern White Pine, depending on the degree of wood selection in the construction process.
{"title":"Species, grading, and mechanical properties of locally sourced timber in the Joyabaj region of Guatemala","authors":"Larissa Bogle-Boesiger, Todd M. Davis","doi":"10.36479/JHE.V6I2.130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/JHE.V6I2.130","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this project was to research the timber used by Engineers without Borders (EWB) groups in the Joyabaj region of Guatemala. This project aimed to investigate the species of wood, evaluate the quality by assessing the distribution of timber grades, and determine mechanical properties. The results will aid EWB groups in the design of wood structures in the Joyabaj region of Guatemala.Samples were collected for species investigation and mechanical testing. Species investigation was triangulated from interviews with the sawmill owner, construction foreman, testing by the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, and comparisons to literature. The results were inconclusive and indicated multiple species were intermixed at the sawmill with no distinction made when purchased. Timber quality was evaluated by using a visual grading guide developed by the authors to assess the distribution of grades within a large order of lumber. Static bending and compression parallel to grain tests were conducted to obtain modulus of rupture, compression parallel to grain, and modulus of elasticity. Specific gravity was also obtained.The results indicate that three different species were collected. Ninety per cent (90%) of the timber was No. 3 or better and 50% to 80% was No. 2 or better depending on the size. Clear wood testing values were similar to those of Eastern White Pine. Structural design should be performed based on National Design Specification (NDS) design values for a No. 3 or No. 2 Eastern White Pine, depending on the degree of wood selection in the construction process.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44778079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We present perspectives of solid waste in the Cambodian community of Koh Dambang, situated on the Mekong River, identified through a field-based mixed-methods study. We found that Koh Dambang had no waste service and households were responsible for their waste management. The residents interviewed produce approximately 0.4 to 1 kg of waste per person per day, where typically half of the waste is burnt, a quarter is buried and the remainder is dumped. Our research highlighted the desire for a community-level waste management plan. Some degree of waste management centralisation would have environmental, health and economic benefits for the residents, where expert consultation on a community-level incinerator or alternative would also be beneficial, although this is embedded in our existing external perspectives of waste management. Further consideration of the views of the whole community and its administration is required before a strategy could be proposed.
{"title":"Perspectives of solid waste management in rural Cambodia","authors":"E. Creaser, J. Smith, A. Thomson","doi":"10.36479/JHE.V6I2.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/JHE.V6I2.125","url":null,"abstract":"We present perspectives of solid waste in the Cambodian community of Koh Dambang, situated on the Mekong River, identified through a field-based mixed-methods study. We found that Koh Dambang had no waste service and households were responsible for their waste management. The residents interviewed produce approximately 0.4 to 1 kg of waste per person per day, where typically half of the waste is burnt, a quarter is buried and the remainder is dumped. Our research highlighted the desire for a community-level waste management plan. Some degree of waste management centralisation would have environmental, health and economic benefits for the residents, where expert consultation on a community-level incinerator or alternative would also be beneficial, although this is embedded in our existing external perspectives of waste management. Further consideration of the views of the whole community and its administration is required before a strategy could be proposed.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44371966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Heligman, Alice Zhao, Evan Bartilson, Abhay Gupta, Joshua Hannan, Maimouna Diop, R. L. Read
Humanitarian engineers need an inexpensive, fast, visually compelling way to assess bacterial water quality in remote locations. One way to do this is with 3M Petrifilm E. coli/Coliform (EC) Count Plates to detect E. coli in water samples. These require incubation at close to body temperature. To meet this need, we provide a free, open-source design of a battery-powered incubator capable of maintaining 35°C ± 1°C for up to 65 hours in ambient temperature of 25°C. Our incubator, called the Armadillo, can be replicated by an ordinarily skilled person in five hours for under USD $200.00 in materials cost. This paper summarises the reference documentation for construction, sample handling, inoculation, and incubation using Petrifilms and the Armadillo. Colony-forming unit (CFU) counts generated by the Armadillo are compared side-by-side with a laboratory-grade incubator. Incubation performance at ambient temperatures of 25°C and 4°C shows that a single battery charge reliably powers a full incubation period of 48 hours under normal ambient temperatures.
{"title":"The design and usage of a portable incubator for inexpensive in-field water analysis","authors":"B. Heligman, Alice Zhao, Evan Bartilson, Abhay Gupta, Joshua Hannan, Maimouna Diop, R. L. Read","doi":"10.36479/JHE.V6I2.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36479/JHE.V6I2.127","url":null,"abstract":"Humanitarian engineers need an inexpensive, fast, visually compelling way to assess bacterial water quality in remote locations. One way to do this is with 3M Petrifilm E. coli/Coliform (EC) Count Plates to detect E. coli in water samples. These require incubation at close to body temperature. To meet this need, we provide a free, open-source design of a battery-powered incubator capable of maintaining 35°C ± 1°C for up to 65 hours in ambient temperature of 25°C. Our incubator, called the Armadillo, can be replicated by an ordinarily skilled person in five hours for under USD $200.00 in materials cost. This paper summarises the reference documentation for construction, sample handling, inoculation, and incubation using Petrifilms and the Armadillo. Colony-forming unit (CFU) counts generated by the Armadillo are compared side-by-side with a laboratory-grade incubator. Incubation performance at ambient temperatures of 25°C and 4°C shows that a single battery charge reliably powers a full incubation period of 48 hours under normal ambient temperatures.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42652564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article reveals fundamentals of the topical and highly discussed problem in pedagogical sphere, i.e. the problem of education effectiveness. Education effectiveness appears in literacy, education, culture and pupils' mentality. Knowledge and abidance of etiquette norms is of primary importance in pupils' essential qualities forming.
{"title":"The role of the game element in the introductory-phonetic course in the study of foreign languages","authors":"G. Sokolova","doi":"10.21661/r-472882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21661/r-472882","url":null,"abstract":"The article reveals fundamentals of the topical and highly discussed problem in pedagogical sphere, i.e. the problem of education effectiveness. Education effectiveness appears in literacy, education, culture and pupils' mentality. Knowledge and abidance of etiquette norms is of primary importance in pupils' essential qualities forming.","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":"359 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73982354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Priority orientations of the activity on adaptive physical culture development","authors":"N. Voronov","doi":"10.21661/r-472800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21661/r-472800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86285603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lidiia Lvovna Vasileva, Л Л Тренинговый центр Международная школа васильевой
{"title":"Prevention of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children through speed reading","authors":"Lidiia Lvovna Vasileva, Л Л Тренинговый центр Международная школа васильевой","doi":"10.21661/R-471613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21661/R-471613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanitarian Engineering","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80402230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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