Week 11: Exercise

1) Are you aware of actions in your city that are improving the climate resilience of buildings? If so, how do you think that such actions might be successfully adapted to other urban realities?

I'm not aware of actions in Ho Chi Minh city such as building codes for improving the climate resilience of buildings. There are only some training/instructions on how to stabilise housing structure for storm resilience for poor communities in Can Gio coastal district. However, there is a German funded research on climate-adapted housing and energy efficient building within the Megacity HCMC research project. And I would like to share here the result of this research, which is a useful Handbook for Green Housing. Although it is for Ho Chi Minh city but I think many of the directions can also be applied elsewhere.

2) Do you think that the approaches employed in the Latin American case studies might be adapted to your function in informal settlements in your cities?

Yes, I do think that the approaches employed in the Latin American case studies can and even should be adapted in informal settlements in Ho Chi Minh cities.

The Handbook for Green Housing

 [download english version]

 [download vietnamese version]

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