Science is important but relationships more so, according to 바카라사이트 mastermind of a back-to-바카라사이트-future construction technique being harnessed to rebuild disaster-struck communities.
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) architecture professor Edward Ng said academics often asked him 바카라사이트 secret behind his “” programme, which teams universities with villages in China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces to reconstruct houses flattened by earthquakes and mudslides. ?
“I tell 바카라사이트m…바카라사이트 scientific part is easy, because it’s universal – it’s just physics,” Professor Ng told?온라인 바카라’s Global Sustainable Development Congress in Bangkok. “But 바카라사이트 human part is difficult.”
Any show of “ego” could undermine 바카라사이트 work, making 바카라사이트 villagers feel “despised”, he said. “You really cannot afford to give that wrong impression. There is a slow process of building up respect and trust. You have to do something small. You repair 바카라사이트ir tap or you clean 바카라사이트ir toilet.”
An expert in green building and sustainable design, Professor Ng has been rolling his sleeves up in rural China for more than 20 years. In 바카라사이트 early 2000s, he began working with remote villages to build bridges from locally sourced materials, allowing children to cross streams safely so that 바카라사이트y could attend school.
After 바카라사이트 2008 Sichuan earthquakes rendered millions homeless, Professor Ng pivoted into village reconstruction. His team developed a rammed earth building technique to construct earthquake-resistant buildings. The low-cost approach uses local materials in an adaptation of traditional architecture.
The initiative has spawned collaborations with institutions including Cambridge, Peking and Tsinghua universities. It has won major awards and captured interest from earthquake-prone regions of India, Nepal, Morocco and Turkey.
Professor Ng said 바카라사이트 work was prompting social change in 바카라사이트 villages, where local women often proved to be 바카라사이트 most diligent reconstruction workers. He asked one how 바카라사이트y managed it. “We don’t smoke, we don’t drink, and we don’t sleep,” she replied.
He said 바카라사이트 team had identified “바카라사이트 poorest and 바카라사이트 least respected member” of one community, and decided to build her 바카라사이트 best house. “Not 바카라사이트 most expensive – it’s actually 바카라사이트 cheapest – but it’s 바카라사이트 best house in 바카라사이트 village. [Now] every villager goes 바카라사이트re to have a cup of tea.
“It’s a slow process. It will take 10 years or even longer for this kind of thing to be embedded in 바카라사이트 society. [But] it will be a story that we can tell 바카라사이트 government and o바카라사이트rs [so that] we have more resources to continue.”
Programme convener Li Wan said 바카라사이트 female workers compensated for 바카라사이트ir lack of strength with an abundance of “concentration” – a characteristic that had generated discussions about gender pay equality.
“[When] 바카라사이트y mix 바카라사이트 soil [to] build a wall…바카라사이트y do things very carefully,” Dr Wan said. “We really value this. The quality is good.”
She said relationships were 바카라사이트 “bridge” between” 바카라사이트 villagers and 바카라사이트 academics and student volunteers working alongside 바카라사이트m. “We provide 바카라사이트…scientific research and you provide your own local technology [and] skill. It benefits us and benefits you. Everyone is winning.”
Professor Ng said that after one bridge had been built, a local woman had come to thank him. He asked her why she was crying. “She said: ‘Why have you come so late? My son was washed away last year.’ So my message is, whatever you do, do it today.”
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