Earthquake safety construction: from guidelines to practice
Experiences from School Earthquake Safety Initiative Project:
This publication provides necessary concepts and know-hows to communities, local construction workers, and junior engineers on earthquake resistant construction, and introduces the experiences from school earthquake retrofitting during the School Earthquake Safety Initiative (SESI) projects. It also targets government officials, partner organizations and trainers and may be used as technical reference and intends to be a basis of training and capacity building.
The publication starts with the basic information of earthquake and how the buildings behave during an earthquake. The manuals for earthquake safety constructions, developed by SESI project counterparts in India, Fiji, and Indonesia will be presented in the second section. The last section is the experiences of seismic school retrofitting in four countries: India, Indonesia, Fiji and Uzbekistan.
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