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This paper discusses organisational initiatives for resettlement of rural communities that have lost their houses due to various natural calamities like river erosion, flood, cyclone etc, in...
The objective of this paper is to select suitable lateral load resistance system, investigate the uplift mechanism of the roof, select proper location of door and windows, etc, for the rural hut...
This paper reviews the first of two Hosing & Hazards studies into affordable techniques for strengthening Kutcha housing. A participatory survey identified the common building materials in use...
This paper describes a continuing Program to characterise the building types and construction processes in a village in northern Bangladesh. The Program aims to identify the resources (financial,...
This paper contends that geomaterials have an important role to play in providing householders with the best resistance possible to the hazards which they can expect. An understanding of earth...
Description of process in evaluating the vulnerability of Quito's schools to earthquakes; designing affordable means of strengthening a sample of those schools; and strengthening the sample...
This paper attempts to focus on three issues - finding out the patterns of ethnic housing; assessing the relation between housing pattern and ecological system; analysing resistance capacity and...
Significant increases in load carrying capacity of brick masonry columns is possible through encasement in ferrocement plaster. This paper presents the test results performed on thirty-two axially...
Natural disasters, particularly extreme winds and floods, have been causing huge loss of lives and properties every year in Bangladesh. Most of the Bangladeshi population lives in rural areas...
During the last few years, engineers have increasingly realised the importance of wind loads for all types of structures, especially in wind-disaster prone areas. More information describing the...