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Innovative Approach to Assess and Reduce Vulnerability of Nepal’s Housing Stock
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With large number of vulnerable houses, Nepal faces a huge extant risk from future earthquakes. While compliance to the national building codes is increasing for the new buildings, existing non-code compliant buildings pose a huge threat to the occupants. It has been difficult to promote retrofitting of residential buildings in major urban and urbanizing cities across Nepal. The reasons for this are multi-fold: i) massive volume of existing buildings; ii) requirement of proper physical structural assessment by experienced engineers to determine the safety of the structure or necessity of structural strengthening – retrofitting or demolishing; and iii) absence of practical guidelines and skilled manpower for implementing retrofitting solutions.
#ReduceVulnerability #Earthquake #
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Publisher:
UNDP
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(2018
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Type / Script:
Progress Report
in English
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Keywords:
CONSTRUCTION, HOUSING, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, DISASTER PREVENTION, DISASTER RELIEF, DISASTER VICTEMS, NATURAL DISASTERS, EARTHQUAKES
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Thematic Group:
UN
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International Peace and Security
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Thesaurus:
13.02.00
- Disaster Prevention, Preparedness And Relief
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