Evaluation Of Training On The Production Of Fibre Reinforced Soil Blocks.
Evaluation Of Training On The Production Of Fibre Reinforced Soil Blocks.
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2018
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Danso,Humphery
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH
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Impacting the skills required in producing soil blocks to building block manufacturers is important to ensure that high quality blocks are produced. This study evaluates the opinions of block manufacturers who were trained on the manufacturing process of fibre reinforced soil blocks. The study used a questionnaire to survey the views of the participants of workshop training organised for adobe block manufacturers in Ghana. It was found that: the cost of the fibre reinforced soil blocks houses will be affordable for those in the low-income bracket, the manufacturing of fibre reinforced soil blocks has little effect on the environment, and fibre reinforced soil blocks are useful to the society and can be used to produce durable houses. Furthermore, the process of producing the fibre reinforced blocks will be somehow difficult due to the manual process of preparing particularly the fibres. It was also found that the fibre reinforced soil blocks will be more useful in the rural areas where earthen construction is common. It is recommended that governments of developing countries should promote the use of fibre reinforced soil blocks in order to reduce housing deficit.
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Danso, H. (2018). EVALUATION OF TRAINING ON THE PRO.