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Completing the first houses

Structural engineers Margarita Murillo Benitez and Valerija Graville are the final Ramboll volunteers to arrive in Lombok as the template houses near completion.

We have arrived to see two almost complete houses. We meet the construction teams and Els and get started straight away.

Ramboll team and local builders

Over the week the team in Salut constructed the annex that will house the kitchen and installed the roof to provide shade, while they installed the first floor and stair. In Sajang where there is a slightly larger construction team, they have been working on the finishing touches; putting in the internal walls and sliding doors. Continue reading “Completing the first houses”

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Spreading the word

Lena hosting the workshop

The second team Lene Marie Rognan, a Graduate Electrical Engineer and Senior Structural Engineer Tom Harley-Tuffs take the reins in Lombok and share with us their time in Lombok

With work well underway on the Bamboo houses, we quickly got acquainted with the building teams in Sajang and Salut. It was impressive to see their craftmanship in working with bamboo and seeing their attention to detail . A crucial element of this project is knowledge sharing, so the teams from the two villages visited each other’s site to see first-hand their approach. Continue reading “Spreading the word”

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Early days on site

The first of the three teams arrive in Lombok. Shaun Laksana, a graduate Bridge Engineer, and Design Engineer Orestis Angelidis tell their story

We arrived in Lombok just over a week ago. It is so exciting to be here and get to build what we have been designing, discussing and stressing over during the past year.

On our first day we got to see an existing bamboo house owned by Els Houttave, founder of the local charity we are working with, it was incredible and created even more motivation to get started on construction of the two template houses.

After a 3-hour ride to the first site, we were welcomed by the local building team and community, who were full of energy for the project, it was great to meet them. Continue reading “Early days on site”