- 156 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This book brings together up-to-date, undocumented information on the practices of labour-based road construction in low income countries around the world. It draws on the experiences of practitioners working in this field who describe tried and tested ideas, and also looks at failures and their causes. The book looks at the design, selection and use of intermediate equipment for labour forces. It also discusses the issues of contracting out road construction and maintenance, considering the problems encountered and how to overcome them.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- Review of the papers
- About the authors
- CHAPTER 1 Intermediate equipment for roadworks
- CHAPTER 2 intermediate equipment for labour-based roadworks
- CHAPTER 3 Management of appropriate road technology in India
- CHAPTER 4 Equipment selection for rural road maintenance in developing countries
- CHAPTER 5 Intermediate equipment
- CHAPTER 6 Labour-based roadworks: private sector development
- CHAPTER 7 Local contractor operations and appropriate technology roadworks
- CHAPTER 8 Labour-based contractor training project in Kenya
- CHAPTER 9 Transformation of the Labour Construction Unitfrom an executing agency to a contract supervisory agency
- CHAPTER 10 Road maintenance using local small-scale contractors
- CHAPTER 11 An Afrocentric approach to small-scale contractor development in South Africa
- CHAPTER 12 Institution building for small-scale contractor development in South Africa
- Back Cover
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