December 2nd, 2015
This University of Sydney (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning) scholarship, named in memory of Col James, aims to assist a future generation who aspire walk in his footsteps and…
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November 29th, 2015
Healthabitat has put together a summary of the Community Plumbing Challenge held in Nashik India recently. HH was excited to be involved in the similar, inaugural Water Innovation Challenge in…
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November 22nd, 2015
A group of design students from Griffith University, that worked in Nepal early in 2015, organised a night of food and friends to help support Nepal. Thanks to all involved…
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November 17th, 2015
Second year architectural design students at the University of Newcastle in Australia took up the Challenge to design ‘devices’ that enabled washing the hands and faces of 5 people with…
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November 7th, 2015
The 2015 Community Plumbing Challenge has just been completed in Nashik, India. The works built, process of design, construction and school involvement provide a model of how communities, skilled people…
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October 28th, 2015
Our friends that work hard on the Anganwadi Project need a hand. They have sent HH this information and if you have the necessary skills and experience we invite you…
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October 1st, 2015
Thanks to the organisers of a lunch, for close to 100 guests on a farm west of Sydney, for helping support the rebuilding of earthquake damaged houses in Nepal. The…
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October 1st, 2015
This is the second instalment of the story explaining how to improve the earthquake resistance of village houses in Nepal. To catch up on the first part of the story…
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September 29th, 2015
Sanitation works have restarted at the Jalapadevi School after the earthquakes stopped the early work in May and then the wet season commenced making work difficult. The works continue thanks…
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September 18th, 2015
Each year, the BERKELEY PRIZE Committee selects a topic critical to the discussion of the social art of architecture and poses a Question based on that topic. Full-time undergraduate students…
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September 6th, 2015
Thanks to Reuters, Andrew MacAskill in Kathmandu and the SMH for the attached article outlining the slow progress of reconstruction in Nepal. In fairness to all involved, the monsoon season (ending…
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September 2nd, 2015
There are lessons learned, agendas, gender issues, principles, priorities and even creative moments but where is the action? There are some important points raised in this collection of papers and…
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