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 8th, 2015
Nepal earthquake update from the ABC News service: Six months on, survivors face prospect of winter without shelter amid political upheaval, fuel shortage. HH and our partners and generous supporters…
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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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November 4th, 2015
The Community Plumbing Challenge 2015 based in a school in Nashik India has started. The aim of the Challenge is to improve the health giving water and sanitation facilities in…
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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 28th, 2015
The Guardian reports of troubles in Alice Springs Town Camp housing. READ THE ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE HH worked in the town camp houses a while back (2006 with…
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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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