Improving efficiency for post-disaster transitional housing in Indonesia

Abstract

Purpose -Natural hazards occur frequently in Indonesia. When post-disaster recovery is prolonged and complicated, it is necessary to provide accommodations for homeless refugees in disaster areas. Since a transitional housing solution includes planning, design and execution phases, the design phase implements the decisions made in the planning phase and also affects the results of the execution phase. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to assist communities to effectively deal with various processes during the design phase involving transitional housing solutions. Design/methodology/approach -Based on eight factors associated with "building back better" and ten principles of transitional housing, the paper identified three problems in the design phase: inappropriate selection of settlement sites, improper representation of housing facilities and ineffective scheduling of construction projects. To resolve these problems, this study integrated a geographic information system (GIS), three-dimensional (3D) building models and construction project management tools to assess settlement sites, confirm housing facilities and configure construction projects, respectively.Findings -After this study tested conventional methods (e.g. paper-based maps, drawings, reports) and the proposed approach, the results revealed that communities can appropriately determine settlement sites based on the GIS. The 3D building models enabled the communities to understand the external and internal layouts of housing facilities. Through construction project management, the communities could consider construction activities immediately when preparing the execution phase for transitional housing solutions. Originality/value -This study offers a useful reference for similar applications in post-disaster reconstruction and management.

Towards Long-Term Sustainable Performance of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction: Second Life for Temporary Housing

“…In addition to these facts, the places occupied by the units become more contaminated with dirt and wastages. It is especially important to remove all the infrastructure, foundations, debris, garbage, etc., due to occupancy of such temporary units and ensure the place be as it was earlier (Biswas, 2019;Yau et al, 2014). Yet sometimes it is not what happens, causing great environmental consequences.…”

“…Many studies have suggested alternative strategies and recommendations to overcome the issues in temporary housings (Biswas, 2019;Yau et al, 2014;Felix et al, 2013;Arslan, 2007;Johnson, 2007). Among those Arslan (2007), Johnson (2007) and Biswas (2019) have insisted that principles such as community participation, usage of local resources and the development of solutions to reuse units, to find more sustainable and culturally adequate solutions concerning temporary housing.…”

“…On the other hand, either governments or donors worldwide cannot provide permanent housing for affected communities within a shorter period where the top authorities should think of an alternative solution for the provided temporary housing to be evolved itself to permanent housing (Johnson, 2007). Further, to achieve a better value of money from temporary housing, researchers like Biswas (2019), Yau et al (2014) andFelix et al (2013) have identified recycling and reusing instances for temporary housing to overcome identified problems in section 4.1.…”

“…Temporary housing refers to physical structures that the people inhabit after a disaster or as a part of the post-disaster reconstruction programme, which provides shelter for the people, who affected by a disaster until they are relocated to a permanent house (Johnson, 2007). However, previous studies have scrutinised the long-term feasibility of temporary housing scenarios considering their sustainability and the cultural insensitivity of the occupants (Yau et al, 2014;Felix et al, 2013). Hence, Biswas (2019), Arslan (2007) and Johnson (2007) have presented the second life scenario under five possibilities (refer section 4.2) for temporary housing structures to gain better value for the money invested by the donors.…”

Improving Applicability for Information Model of an IFC-Based Steel Bridge in the Design Phase Using Functional Meanings of Bridge Components

“…BIM does not deal with detailed information concerning the terrain or ground; it is indispensable to link it with the GIS to control the terrain information [2]. It is also essential to ensure interoperability between BIM and GIS for the construction of facilities, environmental impact assessment, resource distribution, safety analysis, or pipeline network plan [3,4]. However, as pointed out in [5], the integration of the two fields becomes compromised at the data, process, and application levels.…”