I lost count and I’m sorry! All the photos are also a little bit of a confusion. I’ll sorted it out when back in London!
Tomorrow we’ll leave for Johannesburg and then 12 hours later arrive in London.
I’m proud to say that we have achieved all that we sent ourselves out to do! The drawings have now been delivered to the builders and we expect prices by the 2nd of April!
Then it’s all to the funders to sort things out and we’ll be back on track.
The scheme is one both Martin and I are proud of. It solves most of the building’s problems (all the solvable ones) and in the end looks quite good. On my return I’ll do more research into the traditional building types, and some of that knowledge will then be fed into the detailing and decoration.
Not only did we achieve what we came to do, but we have also managed to kick start the (temporary) shelter for the LCCU. We came up with a simple sketch proposal, and as far as we know work will actually start on site with the collaboration of the Technical School of Builders, to get the building back into a useable space.
In all it has been a really busy two weeks, where I feel that I’ve learnt a lot and think that the work done will make a real difference to peoples lives.
I’d like to thank all the people that we met with and that participated in making this first part of the LCCU “salvage” project a success. I just hope that now it will only continue to progress in the same direction.
Pedro Clarke signing off, at least for now!
Maseru, Thursday the 22nd of March 2007
Tomorrow we’ll leave for Johannesburg and then 12 hours later arrive in London.
I’m proud to say that we have achieved all that we sent ourselves out to do! The drawings have now been delivered to the builders and we expect prices by the 2nd of April!
Then it’s all to the funders to sort things out and we’ll be back on track.
The scheme is one both Martin and I are proud of. It solves most of the building’s problems (all the solvable ones) and in the end looks quite good. On my return I’ll do more research into the traditional building types, and some of that knowledge will then be fed into the detailing and decoration.
Not only did we achieve what we came to do, but we have also managed to kick start the (temporary) shelter for the LCCU. We came up with a simple sketch proposal, and as far as we know work will actually start on site with the collaboration of the Technical School of Builders, to get the building back into a useable space.
In all it has been a really busy two weeks, where I feel that I’ve learnt a lot and think that the work done will make a real difference to peoples lives.
I’d like to thank all the people that we met with and that participated in making this first part of the LCCU “salvage” project a success. I just hope that now it will only continue to progress in the same direction.
Pedro Clarke signing off, at least for now!
Maseru, Thursday the 22nd of March 2007
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