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Engineering Standardization and resolutions, the Council expanded the
Design Centre mandate of MONUC to the supervision
April 2010 United Nations Logistics Base of the implementation of the Ceasefire
Volume 3 Brindisi, Italy Agreement and assigned multiple
esdc@unlb.org related additional tasks.]
© 2010 ESDC Currently MONUC Kinshasa offices are
spread over nine different locations
(CONGOBAT, HQ, AFD, BCDC,
The ESDC and ALCATEL, ONATRA, COTE and
1 Support
Eye to eye with MONUC
and MINUSTAH not MOSS compliant.
1) Safe and Suitable to climate and In the meantime, the ESDC together
environment including seismic with ES-UNHQ is proceeding to
activities, strong winds, cyclones develop an overall systems contract
including office-, corridor-, ablution-,
and hurricanes, and the Tropical
cooking/dining-, and staircase modules
climate; which will be available to all missions.
2) Meet requirements of integrated We believe that modular structures will
mission work processes including contribute to the efficient set up of
efficiency - convenient proximity, future UN Mission HQ and Office
communication - most effective facilities. From ESDC’s point of view
O-form design consisting of modules
modularization will prevent most of the
means internally and externally, The main arguments for such steel problems known in missions as well as
productivity - logical flow within modules are: saving costs and resources to the
building(s) and site; organization.
1) Flexibility in layout design and
3) User friendly and compliant to constellation;
occupational H&S standards Please provide your point of view
2) Timeframe (Planning, Structural concerning MODULARIZATION as
including sufficient natural light,
Design and Execution Process is your opinion matters. Send your
short distances, open spaces,
much faster). The productivity feedback to esdc@unlb.org or type into
integrated recreation facilities,
opportunities can be best addressed the chat tool in the various ESDC
sufficient washroom & dining managed Groove workspaces or the
in off-site fabrication with a
facilities, adequate thermal and Sharepoint Engineering Database!
reduction of actual on-site time and
sound insulation, comfortable room
on-site construction;
climate, etc.. In addition, the ESDC established a
3) Material price for structural steel is MINUSTAH Workspace (Groove)
4) MOSS compliance according to further increasing but the overall including virtual Helpdesk, supported
current UN Security standards and impact on the total costs is minimal for the Turnkey Solution to ‘Construct a
requirements. as the dimension of the required Seismic Resistant Prefabricated 155man
These requirements resulted in the steel frames are filigree compared Military Camp’ and provided urgently
development of a modular, eco-friendly to earthquake proof concrete required design for various sizes of
structural robust steel frame building camps directly to UNHQ, NY.
structures. Also, steel has the
with interlocked frames and restrained highest strength-to-weight ratio of
joints to allow inelastic deformations
any construction material;
including strong wind braces and
minimum roof overhang. 4) Only Basic Equipment and
Assembly Skills are required;
5) Durability, as modular buildings
are structurally sound and can be
set up temporary and/or semi
permanent for more than 30 years;
MINUSTAH 200man tent/softwall camp
6) Consequently, Costs are low due to
all these factors compared to
regular steel or concrete structures;
Basic Module 5m x 5m
7) Environmental factors – reduced
These modules can be stacked up to Carbon Footprint;
three (3) floors high and are expandable
8) MOSS and Occupational H&S
in all directions as required.
compliance according to current
MINUSTAH requirements;
9) Overall Representation of the UN;
Part of the MINUSTAH Engineering Team
10) Potential Psychological factors.
Currently, MINUSTAH is considering
our steel module design proposal as an
Sample of 5mx5m and 2,5mx5m modules as building
alternative solution.
Pamela Treveri
VARIOUS TABS
Almost four months after embedding
the Engineering Database into the web- WELCOME
based Sharepoint system, Engineering
STRUCTURE
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staff from most of the missions have LINKS
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been provided with an account. RECENT UPDATES
The ESDC connected UNHQ and the TOP 10
following field missions so far: DOWN
LOADS
MONUC, MONUC Entebbe Support The ESDC GROOVE Collective
Base, UNIFIL, UNIPSIL, UNMIL, Home page: general overview
Two years after the introduction of the
MINUSTAH, UNDOF, BINUB, There are also several tabs on the top, first ever Engineering Virtual
UNFICYP, UNMOGIP, UNTSO, with other useful features, such as the Workspaces using Groove software,
UNMIK and MINURCAT, planning to “SEARCH” function, (which helps and the implementation of the ESDC
complete the overall connection over users to find files by key words or file COLLECTIVE, we can say that we
the next months. extension, etc..), the “DISCUSSION continue to connect more engineering
The newly established SharePoint BOARD” (which helps users to staff from different missions and have
Engineering Database currently consists exchange information or to provide been upgrading users to Groove 2007.
of more than 17 GB of data. feedback). Some parts are still under
development, such as the “ONLINE One of the great benefits of connecting
Fully functional, up and running all over LIBRARY” and the “ONLINE
the connected places, it has also been users to Groove 2007 is that we can link
TEMPLATES”. The ESDC is confident documents from the various Groove
tested by ESDC staff themselves within that once all missions are connected and
MINUSTAH and MONUC during our Workspace(s) to the SharePoint
the standards are procured and Engineering Database. Groove
TDY period. Even though the last four published in the Online Library, the
months have been our testing phase, continues to work as the Helpdesk
number of home page requests will Platform for several missions.
connecting users, processing data and substantially rise.
becoming familiar with the system, the
Over the past months, the ESDC opened
ESDC acknowledges that the home
new specific workspaces in support of
page requests per day are continuously
MINUSTAH (mainly for data exchange
increasing, as shown below in the
between UNHQ and ESDC) and
statistics of March:
MONUC (for the Integrated Mission
Headquarters Project in Kinshasa).
Discussion Board
accessed at least once within 60 days. calculated, which can be easily all facilities/equipment we currently
Due to this reason the ESDC modified by the mission engineer. have in SDS, or available from Systems
workspaces are suffering quite heavy Contracts. This AutoCAD template
fluctuation as we are gaining new enables even engineers with very basic
members on one hand but loosing old AutoCAD skills to easily design green
members on the other. However, you field HQ and camps.
can always re-join any workspace at any
time as needed.
At the present stage the SOR for Rauhalahti, Chief Logistics Operations use such structures by, e.g. surrounding
outsourcing construction works cover UNLB, we are coming to the conclusion the building with barriers/gabions and
basic camp installations such as: that a ‘Seacon Modification Set’ for our placing overhead protection on top.
huge amounts of not/under-utilized sea-
erection of prefabricated buildings We would like to invite all missions to
containers might be very useful.
(single, three and six module); provide their points of view and ideas.
erection of ablution units; The idea is to modify the sea-container
Please submit your feedback to
construction of septic tanks and at both ends (not on the sides, top or
esdc@unlb.org or type it straight into
soakage pits; bottom) in order to be able to easily re-
the chat of one of the various ESDC
construction of pathways/ walkways; use these containers for their original
managed Groove workspaces.
erection of T-walls; purpose later on.
construction of generator retainer This ‘seacon modification set’ would
basins. Topic: UNHQ Support
then, e.g. consist of doors and windows
on one or both ends including dividing Recently, the ESDC supported the
The Design Packages have been
panel, connectors, PVC-floor, paint, Engineering Section in NY as part of
released as “trial versions” and are
AC, electrical- and lighting system, sun the evaluation team for the RFPG 502
already available in the ESDC (Groove)
protection, optional photovoltaic etc.., ‘New Generation Prefabs’. In this
Workspace and the SharePoint
in order to easily set up 1x 14sqm or 2x regard, the ESDC reviewed and
Engineering Database.
7sqm office- and/or dormitory evaluated 13 different technical
The ESDC encourages all missions to accommodation. proposals. We hope to have this new
provide feedback on how to improve or systems contract in place soon.
modify these design packages.
With such precious contribution of all Topic: Presentations to Visitors
our missions’ colleagues the trial The ESDC as part of UNLB is
versions will be periodically updated oftentimes tasked to present our unit
and improved. and our achievements to high ranking
visitors and delegations. The ESDC sees
this as great opportunity to provide an
insight into Engineering and the
What’s up in the 2x 7sqm Seacon Modification Set