Eco-Archi in Malawi

The buildings and remaining boundary wall have been placed and marked, but now the rain is preventing the guys from digging... That should be the very last bad weather week, but when it's bad, it's really dull and impossible to work ! So the site is closed today. The tent has been put down to prevent further tearing, as the wind is really strong... and everybody sent home. That gives us time to work on the designs ! last week's markings buuuh rain R. the engineer could work on the foundations of the family cottages, good news, he's downsizing them, and designing them in stone now instead of the previously thought concrete ground beam. After our adjustment work session yesterday, he should have the plans ready very soon, and with that the list and quantity of necessary materials. So now that this part is sorted, or almost, I'm working on the water sewage system design.  And calling for volunteers among the Polytech students which are goi

On the 6th week we trained our workers on the CSEB production : how to mix, how to use the press safely, and accept or reject the blocks that are made, how to handle the blocks... and how to monitor the production. Our main person on site - not the construction foreman, but our "site clerk" and "HR director" C. is also responsible for keeping track of what's going on with the production, and sending me the daily figures so I can monitor that from my computer. We were hoping to get the JCB to dig for more soil (we asked for tenders from contractors for manual excavations and we got crazy expensive propositions), and start digging the foundations when they'd be marked, but unfortunately deaths happened in the families of the JCB operator, the foreman and the structural and building engineer, thus taking them away from work for a couple of days. Friday 6th was also a national holiday, being the commemoration of Malawi's Independanc