Correction / exception manual for masonry structure for houses that have been built under the housing reconstruction programme

This manual has been developed to support engineers responsible for the compliance inspection process on the reconstruction of housing affected by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The engineers will use this manual to provide advice and guidance to households for the implementation of required corrective measures. Home owners will need to complete these corrective measures in order to be eligible to receive the subsequent tranches of the housing reconstruction grant.

Under the Government of Nepal (GoN) housing reconstruction programme, a housing reconstruction grant is disbursed based on construction compliance with the Minimum Requirements (MRs) as per the Nepal National Building Code (NBC) and the inspection checklists. Many houses have been found during inspection to be non-compliant with these MRs. These buildings are therefore vulnerable to future earthquakes, as they do not have the required earthquake resistant elements. In order to bring these houses to compliance, corrective measures are required.