There are many linkages between housing, water and sewage. It is at the household level that we turn on our tap and have our crap. If we don’t have running water from a pipe or cistern at the household level this automatic process becomes a daily chore to tote water and dump sewage. Without pipes…
Students for Reconciliation: Jason Surkan
Jason will study the existing buildings and infrastructure to better understand current construction and design practices that have and have not worked in recent years in Garden Hill and Wasagamack. Yet this research cannot begin until he has a broad sense of what problems are occurring on site and also what the general life is…
Students for Reconciliation in Engineering program
By Miroslava Kavgic, Supervisor First Nations communities in northern Manitoba are in a great need for affordable, healthy, and sustainable housing. Achieving these goals is not an easy task. This is particularly true in the remote Northern Communities where obtaining building material is difficult, time-consuming and expensive. Use of local building materials and training of…