This research uses a participatory action methodology which is divided into 3 phases: meanings analysis significance and housing problems of low-income people. Development stage of local community cooperation activities including the system synthesis and mechanism of cooperation of local communities towards housing security use in-depth interviews group chat workshop lesson learned together with observation and field notes. The target groups are members and the committee of Baan Mankong Tha Makham community leader the network development partner’s representatives and relevant officers. This focuses on qualitative data collecting which uses content analysis and summarization. The study found that: for the meaning the importance and the housing problems of low-income people the following are considered: (1) Meaning and importance of the word Nice city and Tha Makham Model. It consists of three dimensions: dimension of residence dimension of happiness and dimension of quality of life. (2) housing Problems of low-income people such as urban problems residence condition problems the problem of inequality and problems of accessing capital. Most of people are low-income and disadvantaged who live in urban areas. Some live with relatives or in a rented house on the land of Royal Property land of a temple and land of State Railway of Thailand. Some don’t have any land or residence of their own. Some were expelled and their houses were dismantled from the area. The system and mechanism of cooperation of local communities towards housing security has four characteristics as follows: (1) People system including members committee as well as committees that look after and manage various funds in Baan Mankong project. 2) The organizational system i.e. the local government organization and related agencies (3) Information system i.e. information and various activities related to the development of Baan Mankong project. 4) Capital system consists of monetary capital or budget such as fund credit community welfare and social capital. These are the value of coexistence support sacrifice and sharing including social relations that requires 3 main thinking bases: (1) thinking principles e.g. living according to the concept of sufficiency economy and self-reliance (2) principles namely Baan Mankong principle saving principle cooperative principle house construction principles and development principle towards sustainability and (3) doing principles refer to the participation on thinking participating doing developing and taking the benefits. .

This study of the role of family locals and community in enhancing the quality of elderly people’s lives in central area by means of Sufficiency Economy theory collected the data from people. It aims 1) to study the role of family locals and the community to enhance the quality of elderly people’s life in Thailand’s central region; 2) to analyze factors related to the quality of elderly people’s lives; and 3) to identify ways of encouraging the development of elderly people to prepare them to be part of the society of elderly people in the ASEAN region. The participants in this research were elderly people in the central region. The research used quantitative methods to measure quality of life. Multi-stage sampling was employed. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as average (x̅) and standard deviation to investigate the elements of each factor in the study. The results from the focus group regarding the quality of elderly people’s life can be summarized as follows: 1) The development of the quality of life of elderly people is based on the concept of “Strong community and people through the development and adaptation of the theory of the Sufficency Economy”. 2) The development of the quality of elderly people’s lives by means of religion: emphasizing the Buddhist way of life and local wisdom and culture to teach family members to be a grateful and loyal and to be a good person for the family and local community. 3) The quality of life of elderly people can be improved by implementing laws informed by morality to encourage generosity between family locals and community to solve the problems of elderly people. 4) The quality of life of elderly people locals and the community is based on mutual respect living together naturally according to the concept of the Sufficiency Economy in order to support large numbers of elderly people in the future. Suggestions arising from this research and from other ideas from participants include increases in government funds budgeted to support elderly people and the creation by local government of projects and activities for elderly people. In addition the participants also perceive the need for a chance for the elderly to study and learn in the local elderly school without age limit as a form of life-long learning. The participants also suggested the idea of evaluating the systems of schools for elderly people according to the “cheerfulness and happiness” of learners rather than by any other method. Connections between the schools for elderly learners in the central area should be co-ordinated so as to create more projects and activities.

This research aims to develop the coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex. The 6 ratios of gypsum plaster: coconut coir: sodium silicate: natural rubber: tap water are equal to 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.00: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.01: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.02: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.03: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.04: 1 and 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.05: 1 by weight. The ceiling boards were produced by casting in normal temperature (30 – 35 degree of Celsius). The properties testing of coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex followed the TIS 219-2009 standard (gypsum plasterboard) including: breaking load nail pull resistance deflection water absorption density thermal conductivity coefficient and real usage. From the results 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.03: 1 ratio is the most suitable ratio of coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex. This developed ceiling boards can reduce the quantity of coconut coir waste and get the good thermal insulation ceiling board products.

This research aims to develop the ceiling board mixed with coconut coir. The 5 ratios of gypsum plaster: coconut coir: sodium silicate: tap water are equal to 1 : 0 : 1: 0.03 1: 100: 1: 0.03 1: 150: 1: 0.03 1: 200: 1: 0.03 1: 250: 1: 0.03 และ 1: 300: 1: 0.03 by weight. The ceiling boards were produced by casting in normal temperature (30 – 35 degree of Celsius). The properties testing of ceiling board mixed with coconut coir followed the TIS 219-2009 standard (gypsum plasterboard) including: breaking load nail pull resistance deflection water absorption density and thermal conductivity coefficient. From the results 1 : 1 5 0 : 1: 0.03 is the most suitable ratio of ceiling board mixed with coconut coir. This developed ceiling boards can reduce the quantity of coconut coir waste and get the good thermal insulation ceiling board products

This research aims to study the using oil palm fiber to develop ceiling board product. The mixture ratios of Gypsum plaster: oil palm fiber: tap water: catalyst are 1 : 0.15 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.20 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.25 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.30: 1: 0.03 and 1 : 0.35 : 1: 0.03 by weight. The ceiling board samples are cast in 30 x 30 x 1 centimeter in dimension. The ceiling board sample testing follows the TIS 219-2552. The results show that the longitudinal and lateral breaking load Nail pull resistance density and thermal conductivity of ceiling board with high quantity of oil palm fiber are lower than ceiling board with low quantity of oil palm fiber while that the deflection and water absorption of ceiling board with high quantity of oil palm fiber are higher. However all of oil palm fiber samples with lower than 0.2 of ratio can pass the standard.