Design to Help

Peter Brewin and William Crawford invented this Concrete Canvas Shelter (Picture 59-60).

 

The shelter used the material of concrete canvas (Picture 61) that is durable, fire proof, water proof, and insulating. From their official explanations on their website, there are two major advantages for the CCS;

 

“ 1. Operational: CCS enable a hardened structure from day one of an operations. They provide much better environmental protection, increased security and vastly improved medical capability.

 

2. Financial: CCS has a design life of over 10 years, whereas tents wear out rapidly and must then be replaced. CCs are a one-stop solution, saving effort and cost over the lifetime of medium to long-term operations. 

 

The key to CCS is the use of inflation to create a surface that optimized for compressive loading. This allows thin walled concrete structures to be formed which are both robust and lightweight.” (concretecanvas.com, accessed: 1 Jan 2015)

 

From the understanding of the product, CCS also can be divided into few advantages that benefit the users:

(Picture 64)

• Rapid

• Insulating

• Durable

• Sterile

• Fireproof

• Secure

• Low Carbon.

 

A space in CCS is quite huge (Picture 65-66) that able to fit in extra tent, extra features, or function as a medical center, fit in many people. It has become a very talented design that might help more people in the future. ​​​​​​​​​