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International team delivers
first-ever CPC design week
An international team comprising young plumbers, plumbing engineers, and
architects from Indonesia, Australia, and the United States, has successfully
completed the first-ever Community Plumbing Challenge Design Week.
Marking the beginning of the Community
Plumbing Challenge 2017 programme
(CPC2017) in Cikarang, Bekasi (West Java),
Indonesia, the group was welcomed to
Sekolah Dasar Negeri Public Elementary
School (SDN) in Cicau Village, where they
completed a surveying and design process
over four days in full consultation with
school management and with further input
from teachers and schoolchildren.
A sustainable upgrade solution for water supply,
wastewater, and handwashing at the school
was the objective of this collaboration. This
ongoing development was complemented with
a series of games and activities presented to
the schoolchildren — aimed at different age
groups, and delivered both inside the classroom
and outside in the playground and surrounding
school grounds — that demonstrated key ideas
linking personal health and hygiene to water,
sanitation, and design thinking.
The ‘CPC Hub‘ workshop space was provided
at the head office of IAPMO Group Indonesia,
3km from the neighboring Kapuk Timur industrial
park, which borders Cicau Village. For the
duration of the week, the international team
traveled to and from the CPC Hub base and
Cicau Village for ongoing discussions, meetings,
and site visits, before developing a final design
solution and workplan, which was presented to
SDN management on the final day.
The resulting plan — approved in principle by
school management and now in the process
of being agreed with local authorities and
supporting local contractors — features the
following:
• Renovation of existing toilet facilities in both
buildings at SDN.
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Expansion of existing toilets in both school
buildings, doubling the number from
two toilets per building to four toilets per
building for approximately 300 students
and 12 staff members.
Construction of new handwashing areas
outside both renovated toilet facilities.
Installation of two new elevated water tanks
for improved water supply to the facilities.
Installation of new wastewater system for
the facilities.
Division of the above workplan is to be into
two phases:
• Phase 1: to be completed by the
international team at CPC2017
Construction Week in November, to deliver
all water supply and wastewater upgrades
for both buildings, plus the renovation/
expansion of toilet facilities and the addition
of handwashing for the first building.
• Phase 2: to be completed by students
and teachers from local vocational schools
as part of the Legacy Project (February/
March 2018), to deliver the renovation/
expansion of toilet facilities and the addition
of handwashing for the second building.
subsequently able to develop these concepts in
the new context of Cicau Village and SDN Cicau
02. CPC2017 represents the first time that an
international Community Plumbing Challenge
programme will be delivered in two parts, with
the creation of Design Week and Construction
Week stages for this edition.
Following the successful conclusion of
CPC2017 Design Week, Construction Week
is scheduled to be hosted at SDN Cicau 02
from 9 to 15 November 2017. Construction
Week will comprise an intensive, seven-day
programme that will combine global industry
representatives with local expertise to deliver
the workplan developed during CPC2017
Design Week (as indicated by Phase 1 in the
outline above).
Crucially, for the long-term impact and
sustainability of the CPC2017 programme
in Indonesia — with the potential to develop
for similar school and village settings in the
surrounding region and in other parts of the
country — the resulting Design Week workplan
also identifies initial CPC2017 Legacy Project
initiatives that will continue into 2018 (as
indicated by Phase 2 in the outline above).
Design decisions made throughout the process
have considered the new Indonesian Plumbing
Standard, SNI 8153:2015, and acknowledged
further experience from the Healthabitat O/S
Villa