Nepal earthquake
April 26th, 2015
The thoughts of all the ‘HH family’ in Australia and internationally are with the Nepali people following the recent earthquake. The Nepali teams currently undertaking sanitation work at the Kalapedevi…
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The 2015 Nepal Village Health Improvement Design Studio – MORE INFORMATION
March 13th, 2015
When a group of design and architecture students, plumber, educator, engineer, dental technician, school staff and children combine for 10 days…the results can be exciting. The recently completed Nepal Studio…
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The Nepal Design Workshop 2015 – focussing the power of many
February 25th, 2015
Nothing highlights the power of a multi-skilled group of local, national and international participants in a design project more than a week long Design Workshop in Nepal. Imagine combining school…
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Complex problems and big thinking ? – maybe try many small ideas
February 24th, 2015
Why does the idea of complex problems needing big thinking, recently proposed by the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Judith Rodin ring alarm bells. We are not the first to…
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The Nepal Design Worksop 2015 – a small incident
February 23rd, 2015
The 2015 Nepal Design workshop was a big event and over the next week you will see some of the results posted here. But for now a small incident linking…
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Mud glorious mud, well not really
February 23rd, 2015
Keeping school toilets clean when they adjoin a dusty and occasionally muddy playground is not easy. Does it really matter if the floor ‘looks’ dirty? The answer – maybe no…
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The Nepal Village Health Improvement Program – Design Workshop 2015
February 11th, 2015
The Nepal Village Health Improvement Program Design Workshop for 2015 has begun. The Workshop combines architecture students from two Australian universities, plumbing and engineering representatives from a strong supporter of…
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Changes on the ground in Diepsloot, Johannesburg
August 2nd, 2014
With Six months on from when the Diepsloot Sanitation Studio was implemented the changes on the ground continue. This brief report from Diepsloot is a summary of some of the ‘measures…
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Design feedback to Team USA and Team Australia, Water Innovation Challenge
June 12th, 2014
The following comments are intended to inform and prompt more thought from the teams and those interested in this area of work.HH has chosen to comment on the Bangladesh design…
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Water Innovation Challenge Day 3 and the winner is …
June 6th, 2014
A hectic Day 3 of the inaugural Water Innovation Challenge, and a very close final result, showed the skill and effort of both teams. After the construction works of the…
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Water Innovation Challenge Day 2
June 5th, 2014
The construction challenge was to install a water pump, solar panel to power the pump, shower head and storage vessel with a float switch to disconnect the pump when the…
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Water Innovation Challenge Day 1
June 4th, 2014
Day 1 of the Challenge involved construction, the production of construction and maintenance manuals and a team water pumping challenge. The day started with a team briefing from WorldSkill Project…
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