Durable & Low-Cost Rural Community Building Construction for Severe-Storm Developing Country Locations by Charles Dushek & Marge Dushek

  

Charles Dushek and Margaret Dushek have established Development and Design Construction and Logistical Processes for creating Low-Cost & Highly-Durable  Community Buildings to Remote Weather-Risk Locations in Developing Countries and Caribbean Island Locations

“Buildings for Humanity” is a revolutionary logistics system for building: schools, clinics, community centers, and churches in rural areas in developing country locations.

On-Site Mobile Concrete Mixing & Pouring Logistics Systems

The Global Children’s Opportunities Alliance (GCOA) is developing a project “Buildings for Humanity” to provide concrete mixing and pouring delivery equipment to manufacture/prepare high-quality concrete in remote developing country locations for buildings that would benefit children and community humanitarian objectives.  By sourcing the latest ATV mobile concrete mixing equipment in the marketplace, GCOA can lead the organizational process to provide on-site concrete mixing services for projects (schools, clinics, community buildings, churches) in remote locations around the world.

GCOA has found that most remote construction projects suffer from the lack of Process-Equipment, and the projects require huge amounts of manual concrete mixing and transport labor to complete.  It is our vision to solve these issues by providing portable mixers capable of self-loading, which will improve the efficiency of production, the quality of the mixed concrete for the construction elements (foundations, floors, columns, upper floors and roofs), and the time and manpower required to complete a rural area project.

Third World construction projects rely on Simple Hand-Mixing or small 1/3 cubic meter to 1 cubic meter mixers, which are hand-shovel loaded and slow in production.  This slow production leads to “cold joints” where “set concrete” is mated with “fresh mix concrete”  and poor bonding construction results.

Also, “segmentation” can occur in manual concrete pouring, whereby the agate stone adversely changes its concentrated position in the mix when drop-poured into column forms from elevations of more than 1 meter.  These issues are compounded when the production goes vertical and requires an enormous amount of hand labor to create a “bucket brigade” to move the concrete around the project to upper level pouring location sites.

While labor costs are quite low in these areas, and quite often large portions of the labor is donated, everyone involved will benefit from the quick delivery of large amounts of concrete manufactured/mixed on-site in a controlled environment with mixed concrete moved around the construction site more easily.

 

The Equipment

GCOA wants to lead the sponsorship drive to procure the concrete mixing and concrete pumping processes.  

 

A 4x4 mobile mixing vehicle (shown above) is capable of mixing up 8 to 10 cubic meters per hour (depending on unloading time) with total precise portion control when adding the sand, stone, water and cement.   The 4x4 vehicle capability allows access to all areas on a construction site in differing weather conditions.

Its loading system digitally measures the amount of water, stone, sand and cement, which is placed in the mixing drum.  While mix designs differ from location to location, the standard weight of a cubic meter of concrete is 2400 kilograms.  A typical cubic meter requires a 50/50 ratio of sand to stone, 8 bags of cement and 265 liters of water.  

Ultimately, the quality of the aggregates (sand, stone and gravel)locally available to a project will determine the final mix design. It is quite easy to visualize the increased speed of construction by using the latest equipment such as this.

A portable concrete pump (Above) capable of pumping up to 15 cubic meters per hour with a 6-inch diameter hose & piping attached pumps wet concrete to distances of 150 feet.  The beauty of using a concrete pump allows the easy delivery of concrete to foundations, walls and upper floors and roofs - all facets of construction that require large amounts of manpower will benefit from seamless construction afforded by the high capacity of the concrete mixing, site transport, and pumping equipment.

Summary

 The combination of the mobile mixer unit and the pump would make a powerful impact on any remote area construction site in remote Third World locations.  An added benefit of this equipment combo is the ability to tow the pump with the mobile mixer unit- providing a completely self-contained concrete production unit that can access any site within a few hours of an ocean freight port that handles Cargo Containers.

The unit is capable of a highway speed of 25 KPH (15 MPH), which is actually quite fast based on the quality of the roads in many remote parts of the world.   Larger distances would only require simply loading the equipment to a roll-on transport trailer and taking off for the distant construction site location.

The equipment package can be easily shipped via ocean freight in a 40-foot cargo container with “roll out and roll in” access into & out-of the container.

 We need your expertise comments!...This project needs further expertise advisory inputs from civil engineers, construction design engineers, non-profit organizations that regularly support and fund the building of rural area humanitarian project buildings, export & import construction logistics services business in concrete construction, concrete equipment operator engineer to operate the equipment on-site for the entirety of the concrete pouring phases of a building project of 2-4 weeks work.

Please give us your blog comments!...Are you interested in commenting about your feelings and ideas on “Buildings for Humanity” in the creation and purposes of building needed community buildings in remote rural villages in developing country locations?

Would you like to become a fellow collaborator within “Buildings for Humanity” alliance group to help communities build buildings that can enable higher living standards for underprivileged youth and adults of a developing country community?

This blog discussion of “Buildings for Humanity” is a common-sense approach to helping rural communities prosper.  Most people are not aware of “Buildings for Humanity”.  If provided to communities desiring positive economic and social change, valued infrastructure buildings can create local prosperity, healthcare benefits, schools and community centers without reliance on state or federal government dependency.

Please contact: CharlesjDushek@Gmail.com   Call or Text Chuck in the USA at 630-280-7510