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SRI LANKA
Apartment
Housing for Families
Following
the December 2004 Tsunami which displaced 500,000 people
in Sri Lanka and left over a million homeless, Builders
Without Borders (BWB) undertook an assessment mission
for The Christian Children’s Fund of Canada to advise on
the development process to construct apartment homes for
displaced families.
In July 2005 BWB
construction specialist Rob Unger P.Eng., a BC Hydro
Employee, started work in Sri Lanka as an advisor to The
Christian Children’s Fund of Canada and their Sri Lanka
partners the Concerned Community Society on a 64 unit
apartment project in Moratuwa, 30 kilometers south of
Colombo.
Update: Rob Unger
on volunteering in
Sri Lanka.
This is the first
phase of a 200 unit project which consists of 55 sq m (
590 sq.ft) two bedroom apartment homes in 4 story
concrete buildings each having eight apartments.
This is the first
construction project for both The Christian Children’s
Fund of Canada and their Sri Lanka partners the
Concerned Community Society. BWB’s role is to :
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Ensure that financial controls,
construction systems, and audits adhere to the highest
standards on all of their projects.
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Ensure that the consultants and
contractors engaged by the NGO's are qualified and
experienced in the work to be undertaken and that the
design and construction risks, to the NGO, are
minimized.
·
Become familiar with the local project management
systems and, where
appropriate, we integrate the best of
local and Canadian systems and train the local staff to
manage the project over subsequent construction stages.
·
Provide a construction evaluation
assessment that covers the pre as well as the post
construction periods.
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And over the course of the project
assist the NGO’s in providing training in carpentry and
masonry trades to local residents to gain a new
livelihood and establish their own enterprises.
The first of the 64
apartments are expected to be completed in March 2006
and the remainder by April of 2006.
The following
pictures were taken in January 2006 showing the
progress of the first 64 apartments: |
