The AfriCart (also known as the Malawi Handcart) is designed to improve the quality of life and the economic productivity of rural Africans. The Malawi Handcart Project resource page provides design specifications and instructions to build ...
The goal of the Bamboo Bike Project is to test the feasibility of implementing bamboo bikes as a new form of transportation in Africa.
There are several advantages to making bicycles out of bamboo. Since bamboo is grown locally in Africa, and ...
The Bamboo Trailer was designed by Carry Freedom for use in developing communities to allow anyone to build a strong adaptable trailer from locally-sourced materials. This trailer can be built locally by following DIY instructions provided by ...
Better Shelter provides quick to build refugee shelters around the world. Better shelter is flat-packed, requires no tools to assemble, and can be taken apart and rebuilt again elsewhere. Instead of canvas flaps, the shelter is made up of hard ...
Buffalo bicycles are strong, durable bicycles that are designed to help people in rural Africa carry heavy loads long distances. During the assembly process, the Africa-based product management team oversees a fleet of riders who test current ...
Build Change completes detailed sub-sector housing studies to design and build safe houses that are culturally appropriate, preferred by homeowners, low cost, locally sustainable and disaster resistant.
Build Change also develops building ...
The Duffily Bag is a sleeping bag designed to alleviate the problems faced by homeless people sleeping on the streets. It is lightweight, waterproof, heat-retaining, non-flammable, highly reflective, and made of metallic bubble wrap.
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The Eban Aya House was created by a Senegalese organization, Atelier Koe, as a design/construction strategy rather than a static structure. By developing quickly renewable building materials - such as cultivating a bamboo garden that rapidly ...
The EcoSteps Sandbag building method was developed in South Africa as a low-cost housing solution. The method consists of three elements:
The unique “Lego” type design of the Lazarian polystyrene Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) provide modern energy-efficient housing. The major components of the Lazarian World Homes are Green in the true spirit of eco-friendly housing. The homes ...
Leafbed is a modular emergency bed made entirely of cardboard. The identical modules can make an ergonomic adult bed, a child's bed or a stool. The beds can be shipped flat and are recyclable and biodegradable. They are intended to be used in ...
Lifeshelter® is a simple, sustainable and well-insulated shelter for rehousing projects around the world. Our award-winning Family Shelter offers a safe and secure shelter resistant to all weather conditions and is complying with the UN ...
The MIT 1K House aims to improve living conditions in parts of the world where resources are scarce, infrastructure does not exist and natural disasters often strike. The highly inadequate living conditions of poor rural populations is a widely ...
Bicimáquinas are pedal-powered machines that assist with a variety of jobs in the home, on the farm, on the road and in small businesses. Each bicimáquina is handmade in Maya Pedal's workshop using a combination of old bikes, concrete, wood and ...
MellowVans are electric delivery vehicles that provide low cost, efficient and emission-free utility services in cities. They are designed to be attractive and eye-catching, with class-leading range, acceleration, and safety features. Each ...
The Moladi building system uses a removable, reusable, lightweight and recyclable plastic formwork mold. This mold is filled with an aerated mortar that is approved by the South African Bureau of Standards to form the wall of the house in as ...
The Moon Cocoon is a small cloverleaf-shaped design for the construction of ''Superadobe'' buildings, containing a central living room and four smaller rooms. In the superadobe style, the Moon Cocoon's construction materials consist of coiled ...
The Mozambican people can experience an improved quality of life from the creation of a bicycle industry as a result of the great benefits of this mode of personal transportation.The proliferation of bicycles will enable local Mozambicans to ...
To be used specifically for private use, not commercial, Mysafetravel provides free access to the latest information from global travel security experts that will help you and your family stay more vigilant when travelling. Meanwhile, in the ...
The Pallet House is a shelter that was designed by i-Beam Design in response to the global refugee crisis.
A 250 square foot 'Pallet House' requires 100 recycled pallets nailed and lifted into place by 4-5 people using hand tools in under a ...
Fundación Organizmo creates sustainable structures out of recycled PET plastic bottles, through a technique known as "Ecoladrillo", Spanish for "Ecobrick."
By filling plastic bottles with sand, and molding them together with mud or cement, the ...
Plastic Thatch roofing can be used in place of natural thatch and other metal alternatives. Plastic thatch lasts longer than natural thatch and provides the added environmental benefit of being made by recycling PET bottles.
Natural thatch is ...
Enactus Cairo University builds low-cost, sustainable Earth Bag buildings that provide an alternative to traditional housing during housing shortages. The main focus of building Earth Bag houses is to provide suitable homes for homeless ...
ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and essential survival equipment in a single unit. ShelterBox produces watertight plastic boxes which contain durable supplies meant to temporarily shelter and sustain a single family. A purpose-designed ...
Speedwall is a supplier of low-cost construction technology that provides solutions to housing projects. The core of the Speedwall Building system is its patented panel-making machine and the panels themselves, which are manufactured onsite ...
Ubuntu Blox are blocks that are made from trash/waste and used for building houses. There are two primary types of blocks: blocks made from styrofoam waste and blocks made from agricultural waste.
Styrofoam waste blocks: The styrofoam blocks ...
WikiHouse is an open source construction set that can be used to build homes and shelters. The website allows anyone to design, download, and print CNC-milled houses and components. Once printed, the units can be assembled with minimal skill ...