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Dec 2003

• Marketing degree through MCR research
• Impact of clay construction in Orwetoveni
• Masonry apprenticeship at SofoNic
• Distributors are an important link
• News
  • Cooking with the sun
  • Loja: Ecological City
  • Construction professionals host ECOSouth presentation

October 2003

• SofoNic – a committed team (part 4)
• MCR Encounter in Cali, Colombia
• SIRDC MCR tile launch
• Behind the scenes with ecomaterials
• 5-day MCR training program in Zimbabwe
• News
  • Bicycle race in Jinotepe
  • CD about urban waste management
  • Prize to Nigerian CP40 blocks

Sept 2003 (II)

• MCR premiere in industrial sector in Dhaka
• An Update from El Salvador
• SOFONic – Focuses of their work (part 3)
• Making MCR tiles is like making tortillas
• Grupo Sofonias honored as Tech Award finalist
• News
  • Followup and quality evaluation in Salvador
  • Plaster analysis in Guatemala
  • Participative design for urbanization

September 2003

• Sofonic - Environmental problems (part 2)
• Involving students in research
• Bicycles have great impact in Carazo
• Dynamic regions
• The chain of commercialization
• News
  • Followup and quality evaluation in Salvador
  • Plaster analysis in Guatemala
  • Participative design for urbanization

August 2003

• High quality MCR in Bangladesh
• Sofonic – a committed team
• MCR roof post-Mitch in Honduras
• Batteries or transformers?
• Columbian decision-maker gets overview of MCR in Riobamba
• News
  • CP-40 blocks now produced in Nigeria
  • MCR roof in Angola
  • Professors

July 2003

• Decoding empirical knowledge – plaster research
• Training important at Clay House Project - Namibia
• Metal Roof Structures resolve timber scarcity
• SIRDC hosts MCR seminar in September
• News
  • New equipment bank in Guatemala
  • South-south interchanges: New MCR equipment in Columbia
  • CIDEM professor provides expertise in Bangladesh
  • A bit of history

June 2003

• Guillermo, a voice we should heed
• Metal structures for MicroConcrete Roofing
• Cooking stoves and brick production – a burning problem
• An ecomaterials workshop
• News
  • Aids program in CHP Namibia
  • Alfredo in Ecuador
  • Pedals for Progress extends in Nicaragua

May 2003

• Supereconomic houses: an affordable solution for working people
• Gastronomical and Cultural Encounter of Cuy in Riobamba
• Building upwards – a simple and affordable ceiling slab
• First ecomaterials workshop in Panama in full production
• Sustainable management of natural resources in Nicaragua
• News
  • Las Melidas publishes calendar
  • CHP construction goes ahead in Otjiwarongo
  • Producing bricks with sawdust briquettes

April 2003

• Guatemalan tile producers discuss client survey
• “Las Mélidas” hosts meeting of Salvadorean MCR producers
• Networking Cuba-Ecuador
• Ecomaterials introduced to Ecuadorean universities
• Synergies in Salvador adobe project
• News
  • Ecomaterials lecture at the College of Engineers
  • A brickmaking village and a university research institute
  • Cleanest moulds ever seen!

February 2003

• Networking from Namibia to Bangladesh
• Investigation about plaster underway in Ecuador
• Managing a MCR Business
• Creative strategy for marketing MCR in Ecuador
• News
  • MCR Standards in Zimbabwe
  • Guatemala - investigation about plaster underway
  • Women tilemakers in Mexico receive enterprise award
  • BSHF calendar includes “Two decades after the earthquake”

January 2003

• La Betania, just another barrio in a satellite city?
• Cuba: 3ra. ruta ecologica Holguín - Santa Clara
• ECOSOUTH NETWORKING – from Namibia to Thailand
• Three MCR Clusters in Ghana
• News
  • Women tilemakers in Mexico receive enterprise award
  • BSHF calendar includes “Two decades after the earthquake, Guatemala”

December 2002

• Coloring MCR tiles
• Visit to housing developments in Colombia and Ecuador
• A creative solution for water catchment
• Networking in Zimbabwe
• News
  • Outpouring of questions to the EcoSouth WebSite
  • New book by EcoSouth caricaturist Martirena
  • Microconcrete technologies used in hotel in the Dominican Republic

November 2002

• Building materials supply - a strategy for disaster relief
• IYM – Slow Food Award to Ecuadorian Radio Station
• EcoSouth Certificate Quality for MCR workshops
• EcoSouth expert in Mozambique
• News
  • Technical sheet about sand and mortar mixes for MCR tiles
  • Colombia: FENAVIP director appointed vice-minister of housing
  • Ecuador: Study visit to housing projects in Ecuador and Colombia

• Construction in Earth and Clay congress in Germany
• MCR Exposure Course in Cameroon
• Year of the Mountains: From the Andes to the Alps
• News
  • Namibia: Adobe Factory
  • Ecuador: Producers and students analyze the MCR market in Ecuador
  • Nicaragua: Elaborating action program for investigation about plastering