Rather than simply repairing the house, they decided to start from scratch and rebuild with a disaster-resistant focus. With measures like an extra 16 inches of elevation as well as vinyl siding that can withstand 180-mile-per-hour winds, the Gregorys' house was able to stand strong against...
Many cities and states choose to adopt new codes or policies post-disaster to ensure future disasters will not harm the community as much. This may also help municipalities get grants and show insurers that the community is less of a risk. ...
Building Disaster-Resistant Communities: Lessons Learned from Past Earthquakes in Turkey and Suggestions for the Future This paper presents findings from a pilot study aiming to strengthen community participation in disaster mitigation and preparedness in disaster mitigation and preparedness in a province, ...
Differential settlement of a building may be a factor if damage has actually taken place. However, the standards do not deal with any possible effect of vibration in accelerating such differential settlement. View chapterExplore book Natural disasters and earth buildings: resistant design and constructi...
Mehedi AhmedAnsary,UttamaBarua, inInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015 4.4.3Retrofitting Retrofitting is the modification of existing structures to make them more resistant and safe. In case of factory buildings, retrofitting will have to be carried out as per the DEA. The DEA ...
Lesson learn earthquake disaster in Pidie Jaya Aceh in 2016 to realize a disaster-resistant community Indirectly, to protect and achieve prosperity, national security is needed as the freedom for the state, society, and citizens from all the threats. Natural disasters is one of non-military threat...
“In the aftermath of a disaster, a building’s resilience can be understood, not just from its ability to endure a disaster with minimal structural damage, but truly be quickly repaired as needed, and put back into service,” explains Eric F. Pros, AIA, MBA, CPD Director of Design, DS...
Therefore, the improvement of the building envelope encourages the scientific community to investigate the use of alternative materials that assure indoor comfort conditions and at the same time promote the reduction of energy consumption by adopting energy saving strategies in the manufacturing process. ...
Gan BS (2022) Design concepts for seismic-resistant buildings: quantitative shaking evaluations. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Google Scholar Ishikawa T, Yoshimi M, Isobe K, Yokohama S (2021) Reconnaissance report on geotechnical damage caused by 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake with ...
which were designed for post-disaster reconstruction in Southeast Asia. These houses utilized light steel, timber, and rammed earth structures. I am deeply grateful for this experience, as it was the first time the construction process felt truly tangible to me. It also resolved a...