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Recopilación de Herramientas para la Gestión Local del Riesgo, realizada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos, UN-Habitat con el apoyo del International Development Research Centre – IDRC (Canadá), en el marco del Proyecto Apoyo a las Autoridades Locales de Ciudades de América Central para la Gestión Local de…
COBRA 2006 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:
This exploratory paper considers the need for a more expansive view of the life cycle of infrastructure projects. This revised life cycle considers the construction professional’s ability to anticipate and respond to events, such as the India…
This manual has been developed to support engineers responsible for the compliance inspection process related to the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The engineers will use this manual to provide advice and guidance to beneficiaries for the implementation of required repair and retrofitting strategies.
The repair and retrofitting strategies set forth in this ma…
This manual has been developed to support the engineers responsible for the compliance inspection process related to 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 repair and retrofitting strategies.
The repair and re…
This guide outlines the minimum requirements (MRs) for housing reconstruction from the Nepalese National Reconstruction Authority.
The MRs clearly state that for buildings with stone/brick masonry in mud mortar, the number of stories is restricted to only one story if wooden band is used, whereas if a reinforced concrete (RC) band is used, the allowabl…
This report presents the findings of two rounds of HRRP data collection on the production and use of Hollow Concrete Blocks (HCBs) across the districts affected by the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake. The Nepal Standard: 119/2042 provides the minimum requirements for HCBs in construction in Nepal. HCBs are pre-cast cement concrete blocks with one or mor…
This research collects and documents the experiences of women in reconstruction at community level, district level, and national level after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Quantitative data was collected from 679 respondents; 304 respondents who are going through, or have completed, the reconstruction of their house, 226 respondents that…
A wind shelter is an interior room or other space within a building, or even an entire separate structure, that is designed and constructed to protect its occupants from high winds, usually those associated with tornadoes or hurricanes. Wind shelters are intended to provide protection against both wind forces and the impact of windborne debris. Wind she…
The Gorkha Earthquake, which struck Nepal on 25 April 2015, caused widespread damage and loss of life across almost 50% of the country. A Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) identified 32 districts as earthquake affected, across five different categories of impact: severely hit, crisis hit, hit with heavy losses, hit, and slightly affected.
This rep…
Catholic Relief Services’ 2015 study, Extending Impact: Factors influencing households to adopt hazard‑resistant construction practices in post‑disaster settings (EI), explored the factors that contribute to people’s independent decisions to use hazard‑resistant reconstruction practices after a disaster, and aimed to increase the scale and impact of she…
In the context of flood insurance in the United States of America, the authors propose that property owners should agree in advance not to rebuild following floods that cause substantial damage and, instead, to accept a government buyout of their property and relocate. In exchange, they would receive a discount on their federal flood…
This publication describes recent national disaster mechanism experiences in the housing sector that best reflects the situation in Malaysia and that are in line with international practice. The objective of the papers is to know how to better support humanitarian responses in flood prone areas through post-disaster resilient house construction.
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This conference report summarises the key messages conveyed during the debates by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) and its partners, both inside and outside government, stating that bridging the urban divide is the starting point to make cities less vulnerable to disasters. It highlights the importance of taking climate change…
This report relates the findings of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) who assessed the damage in Louisiana caused by Hurricane Issac in 2012. It is comprised of an executive summary and six chapters: (i) chapter one introduces the hurricane event, the disaster history of the region, and the objectives of t…
This paper presents a summary of lessons learned to date in building and retrofitting housing in Haiti following the January 12, 2010 earthquake, with the intent of influencing the implementation of future post-disaster housing reconstruction programs in Haiti and elsewhere. It describes steps for project implementation and contains a summary of the Bui…