Shariatpur's Dream House wins UN Risk award

Shariatpur's Dream House wins UN Risk award

Staff Correspondent . Dhaka |
 Update: 23:44, May 18, 2019
 

A house constructed under `A Dream House` project. Photo: Prothom Alo

Nandan Mukherjee receives United Nation`s Risk Award 2019 at international Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference in Geneva on weekday. Photo: Collected

A Bangladeshi project to create floating homes which will survive floods, earthquakes and storms has won the United Nation's Risk Award 2019.

Nandan Mukherjee, designer and planner of the project, received the celebrated award on behalf of Asian country at the world Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference in Geneva on weekday.

In a ceremony, Mami Mizutori, head of the UN workplace for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), two-handed over the award to Nandan Mukherjee, the Bangladeshi research worker of UK's University of Dundee.

A house made beneath `A Dream House` project. Photo: Prothom AloThe Tk ten million prize has been given away since 2012.

The project titled 'A Dream House' was hand-picked from among 104 applications of forty eight countries in response to require applications focussed on coastal resilience in face of climate and environmental changes.

Jointly supported by the University of Dundee and Bangladeshi organisation Resilience resolution, the project house made in Shariatpur's Monai Hawladarkandi village ensures agriculture, fisheries and poultry production within it through special arrangements.

After winning the award, Nandan Mukherjee aforementioned to Prothom Alo, "The house not solely eco-friendly however is designed cheaply. The house won't even emit carbon."
"With the prize, we'll build a lot of such homes within the coastal areas of Asian country and analysis additional for reducing their prices," he additional.

Brac University's Centre for global climate change and Environmental analysis (C3ER) was additionally related to the project.