The DLSU CERBIS Tean with Fr. Ed, SDB (leftmost) |
As part of the Civil Engineering
Research-Based Initiatives & Services (CERBIS), a team of four faculty
and eight undergraduate students visited Don Bosco Calauan located at NHA-
Southville 7 Site 2, Habitat for Humanity, Brgy. Dayap, Calauan, Laguna on
August 14, 2015. This site is a resettlement site of more than 60,000 people
displaced by Typhoon Ondoy. The site is managed by the Salesians of Don Bosco
with Fr. Salvador Pablo, SDB as the head. The major problem in the site is how
to provide jobs and livelihood.
The team is composed of CE faculty members –
Dr. Andres Oreta, Dr. Bernardo Lejano, Engr. Richard De Jesus (CE Thesis
Coordinator) and Dr. Maricel Paringit (CE Community Service Coordinator). The
undergraduate students are Nikko Villanueva, Maejann Cuartero, Patrisha Ayala,
Jason Alcantara, Eunice Yao, Veya Santos, Masu Eusebio and Martin Benedicto.
The main purpose of the site visit is to
explore research topics o related to the improvement of the concrete hollow
blocks (CHB) production using waste materials at the site to provide jobs and
livelihood to the people. The specific objectives of the site visit were:
1. To meet the person-in-charge of the CHB
production and discuss the problems related to CHB production. The main
coordinator will be Say Cambosa, asst. of Fr. Pablo.
2. To identify possible research topics to improve
the use of waste materials for production of concrete products
3. To discuss coordination of activities and
contacts if the researches will be pursued
At the moment, the site has the equipment but they
do not have the knowledge and testing machines on how to produce the best
design of CHB with waste materials satisfying strength requirements. They used
trial and error procedure. Presently they were able to produce quality CHB with
mix proportion – one cement bag, two bags of waste (plastic and styro) and 10
bags of sand). . Possible improvements to the CHB design include sorting of
waste materials to better monitor the effect of the different types of waste on
strength and durability of CHB. These CHB will be compared to the CHB that will
be proposed by the DLSU research group. Cost analysis and marketing strategies
will also be considered in the study. Problems related to CHB production such
as fire resistance, water absorption, durability and other possible concrete
products using waste materials will be also explored by the research group.
With Fr. Salvador Pablo, SDB |
A view of Calauan |
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