Crisis management after natural and non-natural disasters is a matter of serious concern for governments. Every year, due to catastrophes worldwide, millions of people have to be accommodated in temporary housing. In the USA alone, such disasters happen over 60 times per year. Rapid assembly building therefore, play a key role in post disaster housing projects. There are several types of rapidly assembled structures. Among them, the use of panelised systems, especially lightweight foam filled sandwich panels, is becoming very popular, because of their improved efficiency, good performance and their ability to reduce construction time and cost. A vast majority of the recent studies in the literature on the performance of structural panels are mainly focused on the panels made by rigid formwork. The structural application of the flexible formwork systems and their capabilities and potentials for rapid assembly building in crises management has not been adequately studies in the literature. In fact, a large portion of the recent research studies regarding the application of the flexible formwork is mainly limited to the architectural concepts. There is a significant gap in the knowledge of application of light weight sandwich panels, and application of flexible formwork systems for rapid assembly housing for crises management. This research study aims to introduce a novel foam-filled structural panelised system by pneumatic fabric formwork for rapid assembly building and study its structural performance and constructional considerations
