Structural Safety

The purpose of the policy is to establish minimum standards for Public Assistance projects to promote resiliency and achieve risk reduction under the authority of the Stafford Act §§ 323 and 406(e) (42 U.S.C. §§ 5165a and 5172) and 44 CFR § 206, subpart M

This Primer introduces engineering and development professionals to the basic steps in the process of planning and executing post-disaster seismic retrofit of housing projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is intended to provide USAID officers and host country officials with the steps, principles, and best practices that need to be taken to carry out safe and effective housing retrofit in a post-disaster situation.

This Primer covers the basic steps in the process of selecting a model for planning and executing post-disaster housing reconstruction projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is intended to provide USAID officers and Host Country officials with the steps, principles, and best practices that need to be taken to carry out housing construction and reconstruction properly in a post-disaster situation. This document provides a roadmap for developing a project through planning, design, and implementation. 

This document provides a review of Japan’s Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings.

This paper discusses various strategies and approaches on post-disaster shelter construction, especially regarding transitional shelter, and presents case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti.

The lessons learned

This topic guide is a review of the state of play in post-disaster reconstruction. It builds on extensive research, literature and experience to date, most recently considering outputs from the 2015 Sendai Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). It considers the status quo and puts forward alternative positions for facilitating effective reconstruction through a more seamless and re-planned approach.

In the context of flood insurance in the United States of America, the authors propose that property owners should agree in advance not to rebuild following floods that cause substantial damage and, instead, to accept a government buyout of their property

In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, a majority of the designated evacuation centers (mostly in the form of school buildings or public gymnasiums) were severely damaged. In the drive to build back better and safer, the Philippine Disaster

This publication describes recent national disaster mechanism experiences in the housing sector that best reflects the situation in Malaysia and that are in line with international practice. The objective of the papers is to know how to better support

This pedagogic document, prepared by the French Association for Earthquake Engineering, aims at applying these simple but efficient earthquake resistant principles to traditional houses in Nepalese high valley villages using available materials in these