EAST TIMOR
East Timor Emergency School Readiness Project (2000) [materials funded by World Bank, TA funded by AusAID]
Design and management of international procurement channels, local sourced and supervised technical assistance, technically appropriate designs, and simple community participation agreements to allow World Bank funding to flow to more than 650 East Timorese school communities, giving them the technical advice, materials, and cash with which to rebuild their schools, in a controlled and accountable manner.

VIETNAM
Quang Ngai - Small Scale Rural Infrastructure Project (2000) [funded by AusAID]
Design of a A$20 million project to support community initiatives in rural development and in poverty alleviation to areas of need in Quang Ngai Province. Scope included small-scale infrastructure and improvements in rural service delivery in transport, water supply, sanitation, irrigation, markets, health care and education. Implemented through local government institutions and rural communities who benefit from an emphasis on capacity building for effective planning, maintenance and management of new and existing infrastructure.

VANUATU
Vanuatu Secondary Schools Extension Project (1997) [funded by AusAID]
Design and implementation of a building program to allow maximum use of local knowledge in building design, use of locally available resources in construction, breaking up work into small packages winnable and doable by local contractors, local production of school furniture, use of international procurement to speed startup times, obtain quantity discounts on bulk materials, and reduce need for contractor-funded cashflow. In the process, costs per square metre dropped from $1200 to $700, and the designs developed have become new national standards. Project outputs consist of some 40 buildings an associated services infrastructure at the two schools, together with on-site infrastructure and provision of educational materials.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Primary and Secondary Teachers Education Project (1999-2002) [funded by AusAID]
Development of a program to upgrade and extend teacher training facilities and accommodation at six teacher training colleges throughout PNG. The project involves the upgrading of approximately 130 buildings as well as the construction of approximately 30 new buildings.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
North Solomons Provincial Government Staff Housing (1989) [funded by NSPG]
Development of new standards of house designs for the North Solomons, based on extensive consultant and participatory design with government employees and their families. Use of local materials, establishment of local material procurement networks, on site treatment facilities, provision of construction management and procurement services to allow construction by very small contractors, of 18 houses in the centre of Arawa. Won the 1990 James Hardie/PNG Institute of Architects Housing Award

SAMOA
Western Samoa School of Nursing (1994) [funded by AusAID]
Though not a formal design, this did require project design when the original scope of work expanded from $100k to $850k. Open tendering supported by on-site presence of an experienced clerk of works allowed a local contractor to successfully bid and complete complex restoration and extension work.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Kandrian Gloucester Integrated Development Project (1992) [funded by AusAID]
Development and implementation of a suite of simple small building designs, suitable for use as teacher housing, aid posts, and other government services support buildings. Construction of prototypes in Kandrian, and establishment of training program to develop a local building cadre.

Prior to establishing Assaí, David Week undertook the design and management of the following projects, as co-Principal and co-Founder of the PNG-based Community Based Building Program.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Telefomin High School (1983) [funded by GOPNG]
Establishment of program, technologies, facilities and designs for the construction of this 320-bed boarding high school in the remote Star Mountains, unconnected by road to any conventional sources of materials supply. Project set up sawmilling, shake-splitting, timber treatment, joinery, workshop, and carpentry gangs to construct the entire school, employing some 200 local people, and purchasing logs and gravel from local villages, all under the instruction and supervision of an experienced construction manager and a sawmiller. This project won the Papua New Guinea Institute of Architects National Merit Award.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Gavien Resettlement Scheme Community Building Program (1980) [funded by ADB]
Establishment of program, technologies, facilities and designs to enable production of durable local materials from rainforest resources; construction of simple, culturally appropriate range building to meet all community needs; all construction to be carried out by settler building teams under expert training and supervision.