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Displaying 30 of about 782 resultsThe Purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information relating to the improvement of current building design and construction practices in the United States and Japan. The special focus of this Workshop will be on issues relating to the performance of buildings and other structures in severe earthquakes, including t…
A statute to establish the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program in the United States. Section (a)(2)(B) states that purpose of the statute is to promote the adoption of earthquake hazards reduction measures by federal, state, and local governments, national standards and model code organizations, architects and engineers, building owners, and o…
This report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
This study analyses how to rectify the disproportionate debt impact that Severe Repetitive Loss homes, which only comprise a small proportion of insured properties and repeatedly flood after being rebuilt, have on the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The authors posit that the NFIP contains an adaptive mechanism — the substantial impro…
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La Facultad de Construcciones y el Departamento de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Oriente, tienen el gusto de invitarlo a participar en Conferencia Internacional de Peligrosidad, Riesgo Geológico e Ingeniería Sísmica y de Desastres (SISMOS 2012) , que contará con el co-auspicio de Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas (CENAI…
Program Overview
The 2012 Sustainable Water Management Conference will be a true sustainability conference focused on water resources integration. This conference seeks to combine technical presentations with in-depth discussions on legal, regulatory, and legislative matters facing water utilities today.
The conference will address a wide range of…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…
Of all natural disasters, hurricanes are among the deadliest and most costly in the built environment. This is a two-day, performance-level course which provides professionals with the knowledge and training necessary to develop and design hurricane resilient communities and hurricane resistant buildings. This workshop will discuss existing regulations…
This workshop offers participants the opportunity to compare and to apply leading-edge solutions that will help clients, communities, and regions manage their natural resources during change. These design principles will be viewed from the regional, community, and building scales. They will be applied to actual projects, brought by the participants, and…
This first SEISMCARE assembly is organized by the Martinique Regional Directorate for the Environment (DIREN) together with the Martinique Regional Council, the Martinique General Council, the Prefecture of Martinique, the Department Directorate for Equipment (DDE), the French Geological Survey (BRGM) and the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
These guidelines provide step-by-step instructions on how to supplement historic climate data with specific, regional, forward-looking climate change data in the design of New York City's facilities. Resilient design is intended to become an integral part of the project planning process for city agencies and designers. All new projects and substantial i…
A dos años del 19s, ante el cambio de administración en la ciudad y los cambios en la política pública frente a la reconstrucción (aún pendiente), presentamos la actualización del Manual para para la reconstrucción con dignidad.
“La política actual de reconstrucción de la CDMX” ofrece un panorama amplio que es útil para personas afectadas y también par…
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The conference program has been structured to provide a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of new information on the seismic evaluation and seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings and other structures, including case studies, new discoveries, innovative use of new technologies and materials, nonstructural component anch…
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and Risk Reduction Disaster System.