Subject: Appropriate Technology

From: Ian McIlvaine <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 Oct 94 00:45 PDT

BASIN- Building Advisory Service and Information Network
SKAT, Swiss Centre for Development Cooperation
in Technology and Management
Vadianstrasse 42
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland

SKAT is a documentation centre and consultancy group which is engaged in promoting appropriate technologies in the Third World.
The services of SKAT are: 1. Technical Enquiry Service; 2. Consultancies, Projects, Studies; 3.  Documentation Centre; 4. Bookshop; 5. Publishing Department; 6.  International Cooperation; 7. Public Relations for Appropriate Materials.
SKAT's main fields of activities are Building Materials, Energy(with emphasis on hydropower), small-scale industrial development(with emphasis on the metal working industry), as well as water, sanitation and wastewater.

CRATerre, Centre Simone Signoret, BP 53, F-38090 Villefontaine, France
The International Centre for Earth Construction, is a non-governmental , non-profit organization of the School of Architecture of Grenoble, dedicated to the propnotion of earth as a building material.
CRATerre has an integrated working method in which research, application, consultancy, training and communmication are permanently linked.
The three main programs of development are: 1.  Industrialization; 2. Economic housing; 3.  Preservation.
The competence of CRATerre covers every aspect of the different earth construction technologies at all levels