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Displaying 60 of about 377 resultsThis report constitutes the EU-level technical guidance on adapting buildings to climate change. The guidance collects and synthesises existing methods, specifications, best practices and guidance for climate-resilient buildings into a document that can provide practical advice for professionals and be referenced or used in different EU policy documents…
More than 12,000 buildings, some constructed only six months ago, fell apart in a country where construction firms that are often close to the government overlook safety standards
Experts also blamed poor concrete grade, relaxed regulations and engineers and architects’ low quality of education for the catastrophe
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Experts say Turkey…
Four hospitals, where seismic isolation devices were used during the construction, were not damaged at all during the devastating earthquakes in southern Türkiye.
In both deadly quakes, Elbistan State Hospital in the epicenter district of the second major quake, Hatay Dörtyol State Hospital, Malatya Battalgazi State Hospital and Maternity and Children’…
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Many cities and villages of the region were built atop the layers of sand, silt and clay of an ancient riverbed. That soil, like the soft coastal ground beneath Iskenderun, was more susceptible to shaking, Mr. Emre said.
“These soft, water-laden sediments make cities and villages uniquely vulnerable to earthquakes,” he said. When one strikes,…
SUSI 2020 is the 16th International Conference in the successful series of Structures Under Shock and Impact. The first conference started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1989) and continued in Portsmouth, UK (1992); Madrid, Spain (1994); Udine, Italy (1996); Thessaloniki, Greece (1998); Cambridge, UK (2000); Montreal (2002); Crete (2004); the New Forest,…
O exercício nacional A Terra Treme realiza-se no próximo dia 5 de novembro, pelas 11h05, coincide este ano com o Dia Internacional de Sensibilização para os Tsunamis.
Esta iniciativa é promovida pela Autoridade Nacional de Proteção Civil e procura chamar a atenção para o risco sísmico e para a importância de comportamentos simples q…
The 14th INTERPRAEVENT Congress will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, in May 2020. The event will span a wide spectrum of stakeholders within all fields of natural hazard risk reduction, and welcome a variety of contributions from research to practical applications, policy making, insurance and economic aspects.
Focus will be on integrated manage…
The increasing need to protect civilian infrastructure and industrial facilities against unintentional loads arising from accidental impact and explosion events as well as a terrorist attack is reflected in the sustained interest in the SUSI meetings over three decades. While advances have been made over this period, nevertheless many challenges remain,…
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This Conference aims to bring under one roof specialists from the academia and industry on earthquake engineering, landslides, floods, tsunamis and hurricanes.
This conference provides the opportunity to watch and listen how the scientific community is coping with in their fields of expertise; this is the essence of cross-fertilization of knowl…
Intended Audience
OGS, the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics is glad to invite seismologists, geologists and engineers to the 35rd General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (GA ESC) that will be held from 4 to 9 September, 2016 in Trieste, Italy.
What's Included
Thematic Ar…
The International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment (IJDRBE) intends to publish a themed issue that brings together multi-disciplinary research findings in the field of healthcare resilience to natural disasters. The focus is on ‘Sustaining Healthcare Facility Performance during Natural Disasters’ such as floods, earthquakes, gale,…
World renowned building science centre BRE has developed the ‘Resilient House’ to show how practical measures can be installed in a home to prevent flood water entering a property.
These simple solutions include:
flood resistant doors and windows
water resilient walls and insulation
a resilient kitchen with moveable kitchen units;
floor and wall…
By Colin Drury
Home owners living in flood risk areas should be given grants to make properties more resilient to submersion, campaigners have said.
Funding should be made available in the same way that government cash is currently available to those wanting to make their homes more environmentally efficient, the Know Your Flood Risk group told The In…
Low groundwater levels caused by drought and land subsidence may result in damage to foundations. New maps in the Climate Impact Atlas now provide a clearer picture of the local risk of damage to wooden pile foundations (pile rot) and the differential settlement of buildings on steel foundations.
The risk of damage depends on the exposure, the probabil…
By Mark Kammerbauer
The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…