BUILDING CONSTRUCTION MANUAL
In many developing countries, social infrastructure is one of the few resources to be given to the people. It is the physical expression of the presence of the public authority in the community which they serve. It must at once satisfy the minimum construction standards and embody the authority of a State that is keen to ensure the wellbeing of its people.
All social infrastructure - schools, health centres, market halls and so on - has the prime objective of ensuring the protection and safety of the occupants. It must also satisfy the needs of the function for which it was designed. This is about optimizing working conditions by ensuring the movement of goods and people, whilst taking the climatic, economic, technical and material context into account. A construction should provide its users with optimal conditions of comfort: temperature, light, air renewal, access to water and energy, not forgetting the treatment of any waste produced - liquid, solid and sometimes gaseous.
But this does not mean that a purely functional approach should be adopted; cultural and aesthetic points of reference are equally important in providing a quality frame of reference and ensuring the durability of works. Indeed, such aspects contribute to the people's sense of ownership over a building, and therefore to its durability.
As such, if a public building is to be built, it must be able to relate to the specific modernity, history and culture of the place in which it is to be built, and all this whilst respecting its natural environment and the various elements of the community which it will serve. This also includes a gender dimension.
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