Hexayurt $200 of raw materials for 15 square meters / 166 square feet of temporary shelter. $500 for upgraded materials for multi- year lifespan. All plans and construction details available online. Google / Youtube. Expedient Infrastructure for Transitory Populations, or How a $200 building, a $15 stove, and a cheaper way of using solar panels can save lives in all over the world. With a special discussion of cheap communications infrastructure for disasters. Vinay Gupta hexayurt@gmail.com
Expedient Infrastructure for Transitory Populations, or How To Keep People Alive Cheaply Construction Supply Chain Ownership Cost Systems Pipes and Civilian Individual and Cheap (power Wires Infrastructure Company (lowest cost) stations) (national grid) Objects from Expensive Military Trucks and Factories Government (highest Infrastructure Planes (generators) quality) Objects from Expedient NO SUPPLY Intermediate factories Individual Infrastructure CHAIN (no support) (solar panels) Expedient infrastructure has to work in places that neither civilian nor military infrastructure is available. Civilian fails because it is not robust, military fails because it is too expensive. Expedient can work 90% of the time and still be called a success, and this is how we make it work.
Emergency Cell / Data Communications Concept Population's Personal Cell 10 terabyte Phones copy of the The Internet internet as a cache? Emergency 3G/Cell Cell Phones Satellite Phone to Telephone Internet Internet Network 3G Data Connection Gateway Comms (cell VPNs / modems) Private Networks Solar/Wind/ Aid Worker Vehicle Generator etc. Phones mounted? Power Not reliable like a military system. Not cheap like a civilian system. Somewhere in between.
Emergency Housing with Expedient Infrastructure Household Village Region Nation CCFL Lighting System (Eveready Solar Water Double Bright) Pasteurizer $10 Regional product Import/Export $12 distribution networks - Infrastructure shops, traveling sales Ports, etc. trucks, etc. Lighting Drinking Water Solar AA 15 Minute Note that we have not Comms/ Battery Charger specified a national Data one per village electricity grid. Cheap Cell $500 Regional centers like Phone $10 universities & hospitals. Where possible, self power these facilities. Hexayurt/shelter Cooking/ Heating Sewage 3G Spenton Cheap Wood Gas Computers Stove Composting 3G Cell Phone Voice/Data $100? $15 in bulk Toilet $20? Towers Backhaul
Expedient Infrastructure for Transitory Populations Project Status & Getting Involved The EITP Project is a working group of military, NGO, civilian and EITP Project has support and involvement from the US Marine vendor groups working together to produce a better approach to Corps, American Red Cross, Appropedia, Hexayurt Project, and a handling transient populations, including displaced persons, variety of vendors (Spenton, SleepBreeze, SafeWater Systems refugees, and disaster victims. and others.) The EITP Project builds on the work done at the Strong Angel The first step is to produce a set of documents showing how to demonstrations, and the Rocky Mountain Institute Sustainable deploy and test systems using these new approaches. Settlements Charrette. For additional information, please contact: The EITP Project is open to volunteers from all walks of life, and official involvement from any group that wishes to participate in james.craft@usmc.mil the project. (James Craft, Deputy CIO, US Marine Corps, EITP Executive Steering Group Chairman) We need help testing ideas, working with military and NGO groups to stage field trials, and solving new problems. hexayurt@gmail.com (Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt Project, EITP Solutions Team There is a lot to learn, a lot to teach. Coordinator) Upcoming events: Demonstration at National Defense University Demonstration at the Pentagon Long term test in Virginia Demonstration at African Endeavor Demonstration at Burning Man
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