Materials and the Supply Chain Session 1: Introduction and Problem Overview

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Materials and the Supply ChainSession 1
Introduction and Problem Overview
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What this Workshop is about

• How to choose building materials that
• Minimize impact on the environment
• Use environmentally aware approaches for
  designing buildings
• Minimize environmental impact from procurement of
  materials
• (see the workshop objectives in the module)

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Problem Overview
Please hand in your specific objective or
pressing question to be discussed in this
workshop.
We will review these while you prepare for a
quick exercise.
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Introductions

• Your name
• Your organization
• Your actual duties or responsibilities
• Your level of experience in selecting building
  materials and procurement
• None
• A little
• A lot
• Way too much to explain in one day

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Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit

• Developed by WWF and the American Red Cross
• Based on a 5-year partnership formed after the
  2004 tsunami between WWF, American Red Cross and
  partners in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and
  Maldives
• Designed for use globally after natural disasters
  and conflict

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10 Program Modules

• Green Guide to
• Opportunities for Green Recovery and
  Reconstruction An Introduction
• Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Environmental Impact Assessment Tools and
  Techniques
• Strategic Site Selection and Development
• Materials and the Supply Chain
• Construction
• Water and Sanitation
• Livelihoods
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Organizational Operations

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GRRT Principles

• Do no harm to people and communities recovering
  from disaster by addressing environmental
  sustainability
• Recognize that addressing the environment has
  multiple benefits
• Take ownership
• Build back safer
• Be solution-oriented
• Emphasize the use of local knowledge

Words to live by. -- Ron Savage, OFDA
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Todays Workshop

• 1 Welcome and Problem Overview 120 min.
• 2 Building Materials and the Environment 75
  min.
• LUNCH
• 3 Procurement Options and the Environment 90
  min.
• 4 Putting it all Together Applications 75
  min.
• 5 Evaluation and Closing 30 min.

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NOAA photo
TYPHOON GEORGETTE
Major Tropical Storm Georgette has damaged most
of the southern state of Tropico, a small
tropical country. Southtown (300,000 residents)
is largely destroyed.
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Scenes from the disaster
H. Pollmeier photo
BBC photo
US Coast Guard photo
Source unknown
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• Key data
• 40,000 homes damaged of these
• 20 light damage - habitable
• 30 moderate damage, but habitable
• 40 standing but without roof structure
• 10 destroyed completely
• Business community and structures are similarly
  affected.
• Key infrastructure services, electricity, water,
  and sewerage (in urban areas only) 60 damaged.
• People are camping in the rubble and starting to
  clear away the debris.

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Currently involved in the reconstruction planning
1. Material Mart (building supplies merchant) 2.
Fast Track Timber (local timber supplier) 3. Big
Lots Logistics (international timber supplier) 4.
Southtown Homeowners Association 5. Southtown
Citizens Alliance 6. Shelter Net Project
Designer 7. Shelter Net Procurement Officer 8.
Green Shelter Team Project Designer 9. Green
Shelter Team Procurement Officer 10. Environaid
Project Officer 11. National Forestry Service 12.
Big Donor 13. Disaster News Media
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Game Pieces

• You will all receive
• Tropico Storm Reconstruction Information
• A role guide with background information
• A Badge with your role name on it. Please wear
  it so that it is easy to see.
• An office and chairs
• Some of you will receive
• Checks to purchase materials or give donations
• Contract forms to describe sales agreements
• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to describe
  agreements
• Maps
• Paper and Excel spread sheets
• Now, select your roles

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Tropico
Banan
Port Town
Path of Destruction
Southern Sea
Southtown
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Time Line
5 minutes Read ACTION STARTS 40 minutes
decide on and buy whatever you need Contract
Review 15 minutes Make any corrections/addition
s to your plans, programs, sales agreements, or
contracts Debriefing (any contracts/MOUs not
signed by this time are not valid)
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40 minutes remaining
UNHCR photo
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35 minutes remaining
UNHCR photo
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30 minutes remaining
UNHCR photo
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25 minutes remaining
UNEP photo
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20 minutes remaining
UN Photo/Marie Frechon
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15 minutes remaining
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
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10 minutes remaining
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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5 minutes remaining
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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STOP REVIEW CONTRACTS SIGN 15 minutes left
InterWorks photo
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STOP REVIEW SIGN CONTRACTS

• 10 minutes left

InterWorks photo
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STOP REVIEW CONTRACTS SIGN 5 minutes left
InterWorks photo
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InterWorks photo
Time for program evaluation.
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Debriefing

• WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT DID YOU DECIDE? WHAT DID YOU
  BUY (OR SELL)?
• WERE THERE ANY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF YOUR
  DECISIONS?
• HOW WOULD ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
  IMPROVE THE OUTCOMES FOR THE AFFECTED POPULATION?
• WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THIS EXERCISE?
• But first, lets take a 15 minute break

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SOME CONCLUSIONS

• Time pressures are common But may be
  misleading
• There are numerous pressures on reconstruction
  planners.
• Environmental issues initially overlooked can
  have long-term lasting and costly results
• Materials choices have real impact on the
  environment.
• Material procurement choices have real impacts on
  the environment
• Haste makes waste

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Quote for the day

• The core environmental issue for shelter
  provision and housing reconstruction after
  disaster and conflict is environmental
  degradation, which may hamper the abilities of
  affected people and host populations to live in
  the areas in the future.
• Joseph Ashmore, shelter specialist

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Impact of Disasters on the Market for Building
Materials
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Stand up and stretch while we set up Session 2