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How Bamcore Reduces Carbon Footprints in Housing Construction
The California-based housing company employs progressive strategies in design and workflows…
About Charles Newman
International development professional with over 10 years of experience working in architectural design, development, and construction management. Founder of Unfrastructure Design LLC, providing consultancy services to non-profits and communities in need.
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Development of Templates to Support an Integrated Settlement…
In recent years, UNHCR has reappraised humanitarian settlement planning within the…
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3D-Printed Construction Must Mature Before It Delivers
We’ve seen the advent of printed homes, but how feasible would…
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From CAD to CAM: Streamlining Workflows for Custom…
The Autodesk partnership with BamCore sought to support the BamCore team…
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Quantifying Embodied Energy: Considering Carbon Footprints in Schematic…
BuildX Studio is a Nairobi-based design-build practice that is currently working…
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Automating Structural Retrofits for Low-Income Households in Bogota,…
Substandard housing is a widespread problem throughout Colombia, occurring most often…
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From Product to Project: Scaling the Gap from…
3D printing technology has begun to revolutionize the way we can…
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A Standard, Adaptable Catalogue of Water Tower Designs…
As an international humanitarian response organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is…
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Featured Design Manual: Handbook for Gender Inclusive Urban…
Urban planning, the spatial and political process of developing land use…
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Featured Design Manual | Towards Safer School Construction:…
The field manual Towards Safer School Construction: A Community Based Approach…
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Featured Design Manual: The Participatory Approach for Safe…
The most common response to large-scale disasters is a well planned…
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E4C Now Offers a Database of Field Manuals…
Swapping hard drives is a common exchange between humanitarian professionals working…
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Challenges for Dissemination of Sustainable Technologies in India
This report is available for full download to PDF. Executive Summary…
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EcoSanitation: Trade “Flush and Forget” for “Cycle and…
“Flush and forget” or “drop and store” are some of the…
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Building Materials and Methods: E4C’s Essential Online Resources…
When global development professionals need to make a decision about which…
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Earthship Biotecture’s Six Best Practices for Sustainable Architecture
Architects as far back as Vitruvius in the first century BC…
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Architecture, Tools & People
The architect Charles Newman has spent the last several years wandering…
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How to Build a Wood-Burning Institutional Stove
The clean-burning stove is an old warhorse of design for developing…
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How to write a proposal for development work…
While working in low-resource regions around the world, I have received…
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Building a kitchen in Kenya: $0.00
By Charles Newman, LEED AP Guest to E4C (Scroll down to…
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Quantifying Embodied Energy: Considering Carbon Footprints in Schematic…
BuildX Studio is a Nairobi-based design-build practice that is currently working…
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A Standard, Adaptable Catalogue of Water Tower Designs…
As an international humanitarian response organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is…