As the increase of house renters who working in other cities and also the decrease of the number of household washing machine within high price, more and more people choose not to do the laundry at home. For this reason, launderettes have became popular since laundry-helping stores charge considerably more than self-service laundry shops and most customers are not willing to have their underwear washed by others. The demand for launderettes has been dramatically increase for the consideration of the economical expense of doing laundry in the launderette than paying someone else to do the laundry. Therefore, a good location of a launderette would certainly make huge profit under the circumstances. This research aims to assist the potential launderette franchisees to identify correct locations to run the business. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is mainly adapted in this research which classifies the hierarchy as four evaluation factors including business benefit, competition level, base of operation and transportation. Furthermore, twelve guidelines of address selecting deriving from each four evaluation factors which are analyzed and sorted by experts with the weights, scores and alternatives to categorize four districts consisting of residential area, industrial area, school area and commercial area. Once the proper area is determined by first Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the precise address in the proper one is able to be predicted by second Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Hence, the launderette locating exact shop address in the certain area would be evaluated the natural conditions. After Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was implemented in the first time, four options and the weight between every hierarchy could be clearly known. This outcome makes potential franchisees understand the proper location they may identify to make more profit in the circumstances. Then, the potential launderette franchisees are able to choose the exact address of their shops in the selected location to increase their revenue after the second Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is conducted. The result of this research provides potential launderette franchisees with a guide to evaluate whether the launderette locates in an appropriate place and a distinct resolution of decision making for launderette location.

With a grant from Sida I went to Odisha, to learn about women’s local conditions and try to find out how a building could somehow ameliorate it. Through Architects Sans Frontières I got in touch with Urban and Development Resource Centre, working with upgrading slum areas. They had a budget for a new Community Centre in Nayapalli in Bhubaneswar, but no architect. The Community Centre includes a playschool, a medical centre and community meeting spaces. The building permit for this is currently with the municipality of Bhubaneswar. Today alcoholism is a major problem among the Nayapalli men. Most of them are unemployed and the young men lack alternatives. The women are the main providers for their families, working as house maids. My second proposal is a merely theoretical addition – a Launderette. It will not cure alcoholism, but it will employ a few people and give them possibility to support their families. It will relief some women from time-consuming hand wash and give them time to do something they find more interesting.  And maybe it can give some repute to the area, and make its community proud of it. / Med ett stipendium från Sida åkte jag till Odisha för att studera kvinnors situation och försöka komma på hur den kunde förbättras genom en byggnad. Genom Arkitekter utan gränser kom jag i kontakt med Urban and Development Resource Centre som arbetar med uppgradering av slumområden. De hade en budget för ett nytt Community center i Nayapalli i Bhubaneswar, men ingen arkitekt. Community centret innehåller förskola, medicinsk mottagning och möteslokaler, och bygglovet behandlas nu av kommunen. Idag är alkoholism utbrett bland männen i Nayapalli. De flesta är dessutom arbetslösa och de unga saknar alternativ. Kvinnorna försörjer familjerna. Mitt andra förslag är ett rent teoretiskt tillägg – ett tvätteri. Det kommer inte att bota alkoholism, men det kommer att kunna anställa några personer och ge dem möjlighet att försörja sina familjer. Det kommer att befria åtminstone några kvinnor från mödosam och tidskrävande handtvätt och ge dem tid att göra något de hellre vill. Och kanske kan det göra området mer känt och dess invånare stolta över det.