Structural Safety

This paper demonstrates the result of data analytics undertaken on the massive building damage survey data collected by the Government of Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes. The data of more than 1 million buildings contained geo-coded information of

This report describes Japan’s incremental approach to developing, implementing, and facilitating compliance with building regulation over many decades.

This paper is about the measuring the progress of a recovery process after an earthquake, in L'Aquila, Italy.

This working paper presents the findings from a pilot research project that investigated how disaster-affected households in low- and middle-income countries rebuild their homes in situations where little or no support is available from humanitarian agencies. The project was an interdisciplinary collaboration involving social scientists, geoscientists, structural engineers and humanitarian practitioners.

This paper documents a research study that was conducted to investigate the effects of integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies into infrastructure reconstruction on enhancing the socio-economic development process from a qualitative stance

This book offers recommendations and guidance to enhance the disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community in the United States of America, with a special focus on the potential actions researchers, academic research institutions, and

This report briefly summarises the approach to community-managed DRR at the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Asia, throughout assessment, planning and resource mobilisation phases to improve preparedness, response and recovery in India

La presente publicación constituye una parte de la Guía 5 Evaluación y Rehabilitación de Estructuras, la cual a su vez es parte de los documentos producto del proyecto DIPECHO-NEC, "Fortalecimiento de capacidades institucionales y comunitarias a nivel

n additional to a case study on recovery in Nepal, this report presents the GFDRR approach including Strengthen recovery systems; Assessing needs and planning recovery; Ensuring coordination; Leverage financing for recovery; Resilience through recovery.

This report describes a multi-country study conducted by the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on people’s perceptions of using CRS‑recommended hazard‑resistant construction practices. The study involved communities in five countries where CRS had