Breaking Away from Home

A Home Away from Home

Someday, many people hope, humans will travel to Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has plans for a mission to the planet in the 2030s, and entrepreneur Elon Musk says his SpaceX company can do it by 2024. If people succeed in setting up an outpost on Mars, they’ll need to build someplace for astronauts to live, sleep, and work. But hauling building materials acro...

A home away from home: the patient-centered health home.

Breaking away from the disease-focused paradigm.

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Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home

Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical...

Attitudes Towards Prefabricated Housing: Breaking Away From The Past

The Latham Report (1995) identified a need for greater teamwork within the UK construction industry. The Egan Report (1998) took this principle further and in particular posed a series of challenging targets for the UK house building industry. These targets were focused around greater use of innovative techniques derived from manufacturing, and included the increased use of standardisation, pre...