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Bhatar is a traditional construction system consisting of stone masonry with horizontal timber reinforcement bands. These bands (with cross peices) act as seismic bands which prevent the walls...
This guide was prepared by Tom Schacher of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, for use by masons in Pakistan, rebuilding after the 2005 earthquake.
The earthquake on January 12, 2010 has caused an unprecedented situation in Haiti with enormousrepercussions affecting all sectors of society, well beyond the areas directly affected by the...
To implement ERRA strategies effectively in these sectors, technical and management assistance support was provided both at ERRA, as well as at subsidiary levels. The project aimed to support ERRA...
Recommendations on how to build a Dhajji Timber frame house construction.
Discusses how the lack of clear land tenure infromation in Haiti continues to be on eof the most significant challenges to post-earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts.
The final project report by UNDP of the programmes for reconstruction after the Gujarat (India) earthquake of 2001.
This presentation covered topics including:
1. Urban disasters
2. HLP
3. Cash Programming
4. DRR working group/protection working group
5. WB-Cities and flooding...
This presentation covered topics including-
1. challenges and achievements of appropriate school reconstruction in vulnerable areas.
2. Design challenges
3. Structural...
Central America is the subcontinent with most natural calamities. We analyze the results of reconstruction projects after the 1976 Guatemalan earthquake and after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 in...