About Us.
Project Management
 As a successful part of The
RoadPacker Group - L.C.H. has recognised a unique project
management market niche within international housing and community development
projects,
associated
with an increasing demand for low cost housing. The need is greatest
for community re-development projects as a result of environmental disasters
or as a component of economic reform programmes.
The expertise of company personnel in providing project planning and
management, allows L.C.H. the ability to provide total project management
services for not only housing construction, but also total infrastructure
design and construction.
Products and Technology
L.C.H. brings both the construction expertise and practical
chemical and mechanical products of L.C.H. and RoadPacker
International Ltd. to support low cost re-development
projects. L.C.H. has international license agreements for such products
as the ionic soil binding chemical,
RoadPacker Clay Brick Stabiliser and the technology of their own Stabilised
Earth Brick Machine (SEB). Both components of the technology are very
effective in providing low cost housing.
L.C.H. has an ongoing product and technology assessment program to identify,
license and market Canadian and international products and technologies
for low cost community re-development projects.
Sustainable Communities
L.C.H. has developed a management and field team of knowledgeable personnel
who understand that the total success of a community re-development project,
depends on the ability of the community to be sustainable. That successful
planning involves the people who will live and work within the community.
As a result of this understanding to design for successful sustainability,
L.C.H. has developed a social and community affairs assessment and auditing
model, which is utilised as both a planning and monitoring component
for community re-development projects.
Integrated Team Approach
L.C.H. has developed a planning process that understands the benefits
of a concept referred to as social engineering. Social, environmental
and community affairs experts, form a strong component of the planning
and master plan development team. Utilising assessment models, the planning
team integrates various 25 year regional land use scenarios into the
master plan. This process allows for a higher level of confidence in
the design of a master plan.
Capital Budget Forecasting
L.C.H. provides the expertise and data base systems
for accurate capital budget forecasting. To support these budget programs
L.C.H. has in place
personnel experienced with international product and service contract
negotiations
Pride of Ownership
L.C.H. recognises the benefits, both in lowering costs and successful
community development, of utilising future home owners and community
members in constructing their own homes and communities. A viable asset
in providing low cost community re-development housing, is the utilisation
of this labour force.
Viability of Micro-Enterprises
The success of community re-development is the capability of the planning
team to integrate small businesses or micro-enterprises into the master
plan. To provide a sustainable community both business and work needs
must be considered. This is especially true in agricultural areas where
small plots of land are the key to household economic survival.
Corporate Management Team 
L.C.H. obviously does not maintain offices around the world. We have
however, through many years of experience and operations throughout the
world, built up a vast network of highly experienced individuals of uncommon
talent and achievement, working together smoothly and quietly in well-disciplined
teams.
This allows L.C.H. to work quickly and
efficiently on behalf of a client, to bring about a satisfactory and
profitable conclusion to any venture they may decide to pursue.
The key L.C.H. management team consists of senior personnel
who represent an integrated team with capabilities in environmental planning,
design
and engineering. The variability within their professional backgrounds
and also their collective expertise, provides a strong team for community
re-development projects. The talents of the experts available to expedite
a client's requirements are without doubt, evidenced in their CVs
that may be made available
upon request and detail their recent and past accomplishments.
Environment, Health and Safety Training Programs
L.C.H. integrates environmental, health and safety programmes into all
community re-development projects. All supervisors, contractors and personnel
are provided environmental, health and safety training programmes prior
to commencement of any construction work.
International Partnerships and Financing
The L.C.H. management team's capabilities include the ability to find
and develop international partnerships. This management team is currently
concentrating on partnerships in the Philippines, China, India, Venezuela,
Mexico and Nigeria where their knowledge of these country's governments,
construction industries and re-development programmes, provide the formulae
for successful business ventures.
The type of financing for re-development projects is the key to the
successful completion of a re-development project. The L.C.H. management
team provides the expertise to utilise Canadian government financial
assistance and, acquire contracts funded by international aid and banking
institutions.
 The primary purpose of the L.C.H./RoadPacker
Stabilised Earth Brick (SEB) technology is to produce low cost housing for the poor of any country
where there is a distinct lack of conventional housing. It's biggest
advantage is that it is immediate. Not only can this procedure be used
in creating new communities of a permanent nature, it can be used in
the event of a disaster being declared due to typhoons, flooding, earthquakes
and any other disaster that renders people homeless. The benefits of
this system of home building is that a disaster rescue unit does not
need many raw materials to immediately move into a declared disaster
area and begin to provide the rudimentary requirements for a community
to return to a position of normalcy.
By the simple movement of several mobile L.C.H.
Compacted Earth Brick Machines into a disaster area,
the local government people can immediately begin
to produce homes, schools and even hospitals to accommodate the homeless
population. All that is required is a L.C.H.
Stabilised Earth Brick Machine,
some RoadPacker Clay Brick
Stabiliser product and the local insitu soil.
If there is already a machine in place and an adequate supply of RoadPacker
Clay Brick Stabiliser, then reconstruction of the country's
infrastructure can begin immediately. Should the equipment not be in
place, then the
L.C.H. Stabilised Earth Brick Machine and the RoadPacker
Clay Brick Stabiliser can be brought into the area as emergency relief equipment. Another option
is to move in the finished material from an off-site location.
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