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This comprehensive building code establishes minimum regulations for building systems using prescriptive and performance-related provisions. It is founded on broad-based principles that make...
The People in Aid Code is an important contribution by British aid agencies to the international debate on standards in humanitarian assistance and long-term development. Development agency field...
Adequate shelter for all was one of two main themes at the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey in June 1996. The Habitat II...
The Commission on Human Settlements, in its decision 13/24 of 7 May 1991, decided to include in the agenda of its fourteenth session in 1993 the theme named "Appropriate, intermediate, cost-...
This resource book identifies effective solutions that can be undertaken by local governments for improving the quality of life for elderly and disabled people in human settlements. Its aim is to...
The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held from the 18th to the 22nd January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of...
The Commonweath Act including Philippines settles the frame of the national public domain in order to keep far from any confusion in case of conflict (especially if there is humanitarian...
Being an Act to make provision with respect to emergencies arising out of epidemics, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other disasters, and for related purposes.
National building code of the Philippines issued in 1977 to govern the construcution of buildings throughout the Philippines.
Part of the Vietnam building code edicted by the Ministry of Construction. This publication of the Official Gazette deals with evaluation and approval of construction plans in order to respect...