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Displaying 120 of about 2672 resultsExperts from academia, government, and the private sector at Earthquake Symposium 2010 will address seismic risk and discuss potential solutions for saving lives and minimizing property damage. Among the subjects to be discussed are:
- Haiti, Chile, and Los Angeles: Experiences in Contrast
- Assessing the Risks of Seismic Activity in Los Angeles
- Risk…
Innovative approaches for climate-resistant constructions are crucial for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. International experts and at-risk community leaders will analyse the most important on-the-ground solutions in sustainable construction and address the challenges ahead.
The Twelfth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-12) will be held on 26 - 28 January 2011 in Hong Kong.
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. EASEC was founded by Professor Fumio Nishino, and the first conference was held in Ban…
The construction codes and standards, emergency management, and shelter and housing (tentative) units will be conducting a data gathering and consultations with officials from the municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai from 8-13 November 2010.
Disaster resilient design, a workshop of the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies’ National Research Council and the National Academy of Environmental Design, will identify ways to integrate principles of sustainability and disaster resilience in building, site, and community planning and design. Disaster resilient design embodies a…
Part of a two-year campaign, launched by Saritsa Foundation, 'Safer schools, safer hospitals, and safer Mumbaikars' - an urban risk reduction initiative - 'making cities resilient to disasters and impacts of climate change' commenced on 14th October 2009.
The campaign plans to build the capacity of 30,0000 school children from 100 Schools, 7,500 youth…
The 2nd LIRNEasia Annual Disaster Risk Reduction Lecture and Response Session at the BCIS Auditorium (BMICH premises), at 1600 hrs on the Wednesday, the 27th of April. An expert on dam safety policies in the Netherlands, Dr Aad Correlje, will lead off. The people of the Wev Bendi Rajje affected by poor dam safety policies will be represented by a commun…
The third in a series of professional development earthquake engineering seminars presented by Haiti's Quisqueya University (UniQ) and the University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) offers six programs that provide in-depth instruction on seismic design practices for Haiti.
Developed with UniQ faculty a…
Diagrams of structural systems of typical Marathwada houses
Illustrated information sheets showing architectural and structural drawings for a typical small dwelling unit for Seismic zones III, IV and V for Brick wall and Stone Masonry wall. Published by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Management Division.
Este manual se ha realizado, por lo tanto, con el propósito de que sirva como una guía técnica idónea en donde se presentan alternativas de intervención o rehabilitación sísmica para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de las edificaciones existentes de adobe y tapia pisada y así disminuir la pérdida de vidas humanas en caso de presentarse un sismo. Esta guía n…
The procedure presented in this Handbook is meant to be the preliminary screening phase of a multi-phase procedure for identifying potentially hazardous buildings. Buildings identified by this procedure must be analyzed in more detail by an experienced seismic design professional. Because rapid visual screening is designed to be performed from the stree…
A variety of factors can cause emergencies, such as natural disasters or man-made disasters. Whatever the cause, Public Safety Canada works to reduce their impact.
Learn more about what Public Safety Canada is doing in the following areas:
* Disaster mitigation
* Emergency preparedness
* Response
* Recovery
* Critical infrastructure protection
* Cybe…
This publication offers basic concepts and construction techniques to improve the earthquake resistance of the commonly built houses.
The book starts with the presentation of the basic concepts that determine the performance of constructions when subjected to high intensity earthquakes, as well as with the sensitivity of that performance to the basic g…
The paper outlines the road to a 1.5 billion, 15 year commitment by the government of British Columbia to school seismic safety. Over the course of a concerted one and a half year public education, media and lobbying campaign, school seismic safety has come to grip the collective social conscience and is becoming a focal point for promoting broader miti…