pictures and descriptions of visits by Mr.BInder to different countries

2. THE NEW ALPHA & OMEGA A FRAME THAT
WHICH IS BEEN OFFIRED BY POLYFORM FOR
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES
DESTROYED BY EARHTQUAKES IN NEPAL
They are earthquake resistant, very
economical and well insulated, easily
constructed by communities

3. The Indira Hotel close to the airport in
Delhil(india) where Wolf stayed

4. The driver Mr Khan of E-Pack who
chauffeured Wolf to their polystyrene
factory and back to the airport

5. Management of E-Pack at the Main Factory. Behind
them are the polystyrene packaging manufactured in
steam injected moulds

6. Basic polystyrene block emerging from mould. Polyform
products are cut from this using a hot wire

7. Mr Bothra CEO at left of Wolf, then factory manager and at
right Mr Bothra’s nephew who spent a whole day in negotiations
supplying polystyrene for poly structures for Nepal

8. The second of E-Packs factories where they make
components for their prefabricated structures. Wolf
will be visting them again on the 24Th of august tto see
if they can manufacture roof panels and dropping them
of by helicopters to otherwise inaccessible
communities

9. The 3rd E-Pack factory where they make polystyrene
sculptured products and would cut PolyForm products
from the base blocks manufactured In their first factory
as showen in their main factory

10. Sports car sculptured from polystyrene

11. `Ironman’ carved from polystyrene

12. E-Pack over night cut the products for our Demo PolyAlpha &
Omega House and tried in vain to get this on Wolf’s Air India
flight to Kathmandu

13. Displaced villagers finding temporary shelters in vacant areas
all over Kathmandu. They fear to live in buildings which could
again collapse during another earthquake

14. One of many buildings in Kathmandu toppled by
earthquakes

15. Another building which collapsed during the earthquakes

16. This is where people had to be pulled
out of, dead and sometimes still alive

17. It will take months if not years to clear the rubble and then
hopefully rebuild with Polystructures

18. It’s twin building stopped the building on the right from
toppling

19. This is the shop at the ground floor which gave way because it
had insufficient supports

20. The single storey building on the left provided support
otherwise both buildings would have toppled

21. This shows how long both buildings are – imagine the loss of
life and trauma this would have caused to the occupants

22. The photo on the left
shows typical houses
In rural areas.
Constructed using
local rocks often
without water
My civil engineering
colleague Mr Ryan Bragge
took this photo during his
two day reconnaissance in
the rural areas

23. Ryan doing a load test on one of the polystyrene
panels we brought from SA. At back are 2
completed panels used to demonstrate our
PolyAlpha & Omega homes

24. A collage of a brochure showing the manufacture
of the PolyAlpha & Omega A- frame structure

25. A 20 sqm structure should take 3 persons to
complete construction in approximately 6
working days. This will avoid the need for
temporary shelters in future disaster areas

26. Polyform International plans to return to Nepal after the
monsoon season to construct an office with the polystyrene order
from India and commence Polyform Nepal to assist in the
reconstruction.
The rural communties can use local rocks laid in mortar to
construct the end walls to maintain their cultural appearance as
shown on this slide

27. We show futher options of combinations of
styles of Polystructures for use in Nepal and
South Africa, which according to Agrèment
perform equally to or better than sheeted
brick house