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These Guidelines For Earthquake Resistant Construction Of Non-Engineered Rural And Suburban Masonry Houses In Cement Sand Mortar In Earthquake Affected Areas show how to provide necessary concept...
This report is intended to help housing and shelter practitioners improve future post-disaster shelter responses and housing recovery programs and the integration between them. The report covers...
DRAFTGuidelines to privide necessary concept and know-how to the communities and local construction workers for earthquake resistant construction of non-engineered rural and suburban houses using...
This document was prepared for œArchitecture for Humanity? in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It is intended to provide some general recommendations for improved building practices in...
The EU takes pride in having continuously supported communities in major reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of war, tsunami and earthquakes in South Asia. This has been possible by the...
The beginning of the 20st century was marked in India by two major disasters. In January 2001 a severe earthquake stroke Gujarat. Less than four years later the Indian Ocean tsunami hit coastal...
The most realistic short-run approach for rehousing most people affected by the earthquake in Haiti will be to help as many as possible return to their original neighborhoods if it can be done...
The Sumatra 30 September 2009 earthquake has damaged hundred thousand buildings in West Sumatra Province. The earthquake is located in 100 km offshore of Padang City, the Capital City of the...
From 23-30 September 1995, a four-person delegation of Habitat International Coalition (HIC) undertook a fact-finding mission (FFM) in Kobe, Japan to investigate allegations of housing rights and...
Heiner Gloor of Swiss Solidarity and Shelter Centre delivered the Sector Lecture for SM09a, foucsing on lessons learnt from the Pakistan earthquake in 2005. The key points were as follows:
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