Holder of Project: FOEB - Name of Project: Sustainable construction in Ghana!
'Fonden til fremme af blivende Økologisk Balance' - forkortet FØB. Fonden er erhvervsdrivende og ejer koncernen "Egen Vinding og Datter" herunder EVD-Byg. EVD's aktiviteter kan ses på hjemmesiden www.egenvinding.dk Projektet fik - i 28 feb. 2010 - af Projektrådgivningen bevilliget en ½ mio. DDK til at vise, at den lerst
ens teknologi firmaet anvender i Danmark, også kan anvendes Ghana. Projekt startede 1. marts i 2010 og er nu meget tæt på sin afslutning. Projektets formål: at vise at man kan fremstille lersten af Ghanesisk lerjord, ved at udsætte lerjorden for et højt tryk uden at tilsætte cement, samt at træne en landsbys indbyggere og håndværkere til at bygge deres egne huse, skoler og lagerbygninger kan lade sig gøre. Det er konstateret, at de kan bygge deres eget 45m2 hus for en samlet pris af lige under 14.000 DDK. Det betragtes som attraktivt og betaltbart af en lang række af landsbyens beboere, således at projektet kan være med til at styrke en landsbys pengeøkonomi, når de ved hjælp af lerstensmaskinen, kan bygge de boliger og bygninger (skoler, lager m,v.) som de ønsker. Læs mere om projektet www.foeb.dk - der er mange flere oplysninger at finde. Der kommer løbende updateringer, billeder og meget mere. Invitere dine venner til gruppen, hvis det har fanget din interesse. ENGELSK:
The Project
With a clay Brick making Machine and compressed clay bricks you can build
quality houses in rural areas in Ghana. The aim of the project is to transfer
Clay Brick building technology, so the Ghanaians can get affordable quality
houses in rural villages using clay as building material as they do today. The interesting thing is that the compressed clay brick give a cooler and less
moisture indoor climate. To days housing standard in the Villages is very low. The building technique
(wattle and daub) has been used for generations, so there has not been any
innovation in that area in that span of time. Every year in the rain season the
houses deteriorate considerably. At the moment there is no affordable
alternative in the villages. The task in Ghana
The task in the villages is to mobilise the workforce appropriately. The overall
objective of FOEB is to develop sustainable buildings for as many people as
possible and therefore the social angle is the top priority. It is the opinion of
FOEB that this should be done with commercial technologies in order to achieve
the necessary long term impact. FOEB realised in the beginning of their research
that it was difficult to combine a commercial approach with a social purpose. This difficulty is deeply rooted in the vast economic differences between the
villages and the larger towns. Businesses will naturally thrive in the cities,
but not in the villages where the purchasing power is nearly non existent. By providing the villages with the clay brick machine for a period of time,
supported by the other activities, the desired transfer of technology and know
how will be provided. The training of the craftsmen and the apprentices
(their own workforce) is important, but not enough. Several actions in the villages
have to be coordinated and part of their cooperation has to be concentrated on
new activities instead of preserving all the old traditions and looking passively
to the development around them. That’s why the Village Committees has to be empowered. The very good thing
about the clay brick product is that it is sustainable in any sense of the word and
they have the raw material in abundant amounts just at their fingertips in nearly
very building area. Already to day they have the capacity to run and maintain
the technology transferred (e.g.TTI). It will be a big scoop if the municipality
will finance some of the school and/or the housing of the teachers in the next
Phase. In that way extra money is going into the villages and a possible
positive rippling effect is started. This is one of the basic principles in the strategy. This is paving the way for economically dynamic development. Another important
part of the strategy is the demonstration houses. With these houses and the
drawings and ideas presented inside the houses, the inhabitants of the villages
and visitors to TTI can see the results for themselves. With that background it
is easier to inform politicians and other interested parties, and it is part
of the strategic plan to do that in Ghana as well as in Holbæk. The commercial
price of a Clay Brick will be 2/3 (including the cost of investing in a machine) of
the price of concrete bricks. And that will be good business. If they are
doing the job of producing the clay brick themselves, the price is 1/3. That means that carrying through necessary projects in the villages like schools,
housing etc, gives wealth to the villages in two ways: through the new buildings
in itself and through the salary to the workers. With a successful completion of
the project, “know how” will have been achieved, and the Concept: Affordable
and improved housing using own workforce will be clarified and taken into
consideration in other villages. The above improved division of labor will greatly
benefit a family living in a village and thus be of great help to women in the
villages. Construction of schools helps equally girls as boys, as all children
attend school in Ghana, where schools exist. If the ideas and methods of
development in this project should spread and catch on in more villages, then
the production of the clay bricks machines will be established locally in Ghana. From a practical point of view, it is important to note that the clay brick machine
has a capacity of 240,000 bricks per year, which is enough to serve at least 6
villages in the development phase, but here the parallel development of training
in construction technology is crucial. In Mpohor Wassa East District, there is
around 120 Villages (see annex 12) With implementation of the project the
foundation is laid for cooperation with TTI. The school will gain the capacity to
carry out courses in the future, and on top of that the concept and lessons
learned here is fairly easy transferred to other NGO’s and technical schools in
Ghana. With the completion of this project the foundation for our overall goal: to implement
sustainable and economical building techniques in Ghana for the poor is laid. It requires further social work in the villages, but they have the tools. At the same
time Black Viking can test the market in Accra, where the purchasing power
is high, using the demo house which will be built by Black Viking.
