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We would like to thank the following people who assisted or contributed to the preparation of this book or its original portuguese version:
- CUSO/SUCO Canada and Oxfam Belgium for funding the Production of Building Materials
Project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
- Emile Giroux for his contribution to the chapter on moulding in the original portuguese manual, Fabricacao de Tijolos.
- Maria Cristina Dias Lay and Antonio Tarcisio da Luz Reis for the long hours they spent correcting the portuguese in the original manuals.
- David Sogge for his encouragement and support throughout our work.
- our Mozambican colleagues at the Direccao Provincial de Construcao e Aguas, Pemba, Cabo Delgado who worked with us on the project: Afonso Pundi, Fernanda Correia, Norberto Arusse, David Terenciano, Benjamin Watiquinaca, Lamo Pirai, Falume Samaha, Pitane Alfane, Ramos Rachide Iahaia, Nafio Selemane and Jaime Mondlane.
- most of all, we would like to thank the members of the Nanrapa Brick and Tile Cooperative in Namuno District, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, for their dedication, perseverance and courage.
All the drawings in this manual are original and were drawn by the authors, based on their photographs taken in Mozambique, with the following exceptions:
- page 6, ("tools"), page 10 ("rendering walls and bricks used for flooring"), page 15 ("Internal Walls") and page 16 ("External Walls") from Utilizacao de Tijolos. by Maria Cristina Dias Lay and Antonio Tarcicio da Luz Reis.
- page 14 ("bricks knocking together") from Brickmaking in Developing Countries, by John P.M. Parry.
- page 24 ("animal powered mixer and mixing clay with feet") from =11-Scale Brickmaking, by the International Labour Office.
All the text in this manual is original and is based on the actual work done and the experience gained in Mozambique, with the exception of the chapter on firing a kiln with coal which was supplied to us by Michael Parks and John Spiropoulos of Intermediate
Technology Development Group; and the appendix on woodlots which was supplied by GATE.
Anne Beamish
Will Donovan
January 1988
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