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Welcome to Chris Bennett's and Lis Pedersen's web site. If you are looking for information Chris' current work on affordable housing, please visit www.mygbhousing.info. The video below tells the background to Chris' project.

 

2014 - Vanuatu - Resilient Roads Design Manual

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2014 - Vanuatu - Resilient Roads Design Manual

The purpose of these Guidelines is to develop and promote apropriate methods of
road enginering that gives the best posible aces to communites at minimum cost.

This Draft Guide to Standard Design has ben prepared for use acros PWD for the
rural road network in Vanuatu.

Standard specifcations are a complementary document adresing how the work
should be undertaken. It has ben prepared as a separate document.

The standards refered to in this guideline do not include Urban Roads. 


The Austroads Road Design Series is the basis for the Vanuatu Standards

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Adventures

Chris in the NCT Race 

Chris has an adventurous spirit which generally involves cycling, running, or just being out there having a good time. Read his 'Race Reports' below. This is a link to his SPOT GPS tracker. If you are interested in his 'geeky' sport technical blog it is at www.tri-duffer.com. He also has stories of his life as 'An Overtravelled Engineer Working for the World Bank' at World Bank Traveller.

 

Race Reports

Technical

Document Library

 

  • Chris' published papers and reports are here.
  • His Technical Library  has a range of reports 
  • Golden Bay community projects are here.
  • The history of the ROMDAS company is here.
  • The 'Road to Good Health' HIV/AIDs Toolkit is here.

 

Technical Library

Chris and Lis

Chris and Lis

We are Lis Pedersen and Chris Bennett. We’ve been married over 30 years and each found our way to New Zealand in the early 1980s from Denmark and Canada respectively. Golden Bay has been our happy place for almost 20 years and we are now based in Pohara just above the beach, with our two cats Coco and Max. 

 

 

 

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