Coming Soon @ Science Centre
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Catch this banner being put up at the ECO House building site.
Proudly done by our volunteer designer, Hong Kiat.
EcOasis!!! Lets GO!! This weekend!
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU at 1:25 AM
Hey guys!
Wonderful to have met up and see such enthusiam for the project. I believe I have a great bunch of pple to make this EcOasis a success!
We are starting on the Green Roof and carrying on with our RWHS (Rainwater Harvesting System) this weekend!
Would like to invite you to the sessions below. Pls revert your interest to me asap (1 or/and 2) as i need to gauge if we are having too many hands for these sessions.
First come first serve!! =)
1. Stud Plants Preparation
Date: 01 Mar 08 (this Sat)
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm
Venue: 100 Dairy Farm Rd.
Brief: Our Landscape Architect will be getting the friendly garden aunty to teach us the transplanting, propogation techniques, etc. Singing to the greens will come in later sessions.
2. RWHS + Greywater Trial Systems
Date: 02 Mar 08 (this Sun)
Time: 10am onwards
Venue: 100 Dairy Farm Rd.
Brief: We're carrying on with the testing of rainwater harvesting & greywater system. Our lead water-men will go thru the basic ideas with new volunteers and start to get the hands dirty!
Thanks! Hope to hear from you soon!!
Feel Free to sms me @ 98236252 for any queries.
Ah Yao~
First Round of Rainwater Harvesting System (RWHS) Experiment
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 10:05 PM
And now we get our hands dirty!Last week we did some shopping, now we took couple of those GIANT dispenser bottles for some experimentation.
In deep thoughts of how it should connect together.
Well...eventually the joints and fixtures weren't enough so we went out to get more.
Yeah! More shopping! :P
And finally, we produced the FIRST RWHS Prototype of EcOasis! :
Hm....not too shabby. :)
Well...at least we got the prototype up and running. We will leave it over the next few weeks to see how the trial works out. And we'll improve on it further when we come back.
Looking for some internal components
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Friday, February 01, 2008 at 11:37 PM
It was a day of "Shopping" for the internal components of the ECO House.We started at about 1pm, the team went down to Geylang to the various hardware shops there to buy the required components after recommended by Uncle Kiong.
Yes...the above picture is none other than Ah YaO~ . The one who manages volunteers who wants to get their hands dirty on the internal component of the ECO House.
Here is LJ posing at the site that Jia jia, our main volunteer Architect, has offered to use to build our prototype. The Green Roof and walls will be done here as well. ;)
And so we transport the stuffs we bought there.
Around evening, we turned to IKEA to do some shopping. To get some materials.
Before that, we had ourselves a meal first. And the picture above, you will see the SUMPTUOUS FOOD from IKEA! Bon Apetite!
Then we "shopped" around.
Picture below: Checking out a sink. Ah..inlet and outlet. How can we pipe in the rain water source and where does the grey water goes.
As we went around, we were pretty excited and wished our kitchen could be like IKEA's. Or we can do something like that.
And then suddenly...EUREKA!
LOOK! We realized that the various display sets in the IKEA Show room matches out allocated dimension of the "kitchen". We were thought for awhile and it triggered us to perhaps approach IKEA to get a set for our kitchen.
We liked this kitchen set! Well...and many others!!!!Afterall, IKEA is a green brand and has a culture of not wasting materials.
This particular display caught our attention. :)
And now...we were looking around at some other furnitures (below picture) such as having a living room with materials made from reused materials.
But yeah...we were only dreaming. We don't have space for that. The rest of the house is intended to be used for conducting training and really used reused or recycled material to decorate it. It will be a creative area.
Now, the next thing we need to do is to find a chance to meet up IKEA and propose the idea to them and hopefully they will support our ECO House.
*Fingers Crossed*
