Bamboo houses win RICS competition
Corporate social responsibilityschedule 30 November 2018
WORLD Earl Patrick Forlales from the Philippines has won the ‘Cities for our Future’ competition held by RICS with an idea to help replace Manila’s slum housing.
CUBO – a project to build low-cost and environmentally friendly housing units – will now receive the GBP 50,000 prize (app. PLN 240,000) money to start work next year.
Manila is one of the fastest growing cities in East Asia, with a population of 12 mln. An additional 2.5 mln ware expected to move into the city over the next three years to work on the government’s infrastructure programme, but already around 4 mln people live in abject slums.
Earl has designed a new type of modular housi
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