Product Reviews and Testing
IHAPS is upgrading this section of the site. If you are would like to post any information regarding product development or testing that is relevant to this sector, please email information to@ gb@ihapsnet.org
At HYDRO-PHOTON we believe thorough testing is essential to the development of safe and reliable products. As a result we have conducted a wide range of testing both in house and at independent laboratories and test facilities. Testing has focussed on three general areas: microbiological, electronic and mechanical.
Concrete Canvas Shelter - The building in a bag.The Concrete Canvas Shelter has won 11 awards including the Saatchi and Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas. Several patents have been filed.
The Need:
Concrete Canvas Shelter (CCS) has 2 major advantages over tents:
1) Operational: CCS enables a hardened structure from day one of a crisis. It provides much better environmental protection in extreme climatic conditions, better security against looting and enables otherwise impossible medical procedures.http://www.sheltercentre.org/shelterproject/attached/manfield2.pdf
Modelling of a Cold Climate Emergency Shelter Prototype and a Comparison with
the United Nations Winter TentInsecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are now an important method for controlling malaria. Their protective effect will be strongest if they are used by a high proportion of the population at risk. How to achieve this high coverage is currently the object of a debate.Dan Church Aid - Angola
02/11/2006: Development of the mine clearance system WADS enters a new and exciting phase.During the past twelve months, the big mine clearance system WADS has been tested in very difficult areas in eastern Angola. When the system is fully developed, the WADS should be able to clear roads much faster than ever before and thus open areas for development and traffic. And the need is huge in the country stricken by civil war for decades.
STEMD DeminersFrom 25 September 2006 to 13 October 2006, a Trial of metal detectors will be held at the Benkovac test site. It is a STEMD (Systematic Trial and Evaluation of Metal Detectors) project for Southeast Europe - the ITEP Project 2.1.2.3. The trial will be conducted by BAM (German Institute for Materials Research and Testing) with support of HCR-CTRO.
