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Project summary

¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Engineering and Built Environment students design and build sustainable housing and education facilities for Cambodian villages.

Project outcomes

¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Engineering students from the Sustainable Energy for Developing Countries Course (SOLA5056), and ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Built Environment Architecture students, in collaboration with Cundall and RAW Impact, designed and built six different structures in Cambodia from 2013 to 2018.

On the most recent trip in 2018, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ students designed and built a bamboo workshop, which would be used to treat, process and store bamboo used in the construction for over 100 future homes.

Between 2016 and 2017 ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ students also won a design competition by building a unique kindergarten facility and a bamboo community centre.

In 2014 students built new homes for two families in the local community. The designs included a separate kitchen area to reduce fumes in the main living area, a split roof to bring natural daylight and ventilation into the main living area and, much to the local children’s delight, a swing. These houses were designed to withstand monsoon conditions, with corrugated iron replacing the usual bamboo and palm-leaf roofing.