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This report describes data collected in Bangladesh amongst the low-income groups regarding their housing situations.
This report describes the outcome of a number of workshops in the humanitarian sector.
This study describes the role of women in repairing and maintaining their houses and how education can help them to create more resilient housing.
This workshop was hosted by Sheltech Ltd at their Sheltech Chateau development site in Gulshan where BUET's Program of testing of full-scale non-engineered houses was taking place....
To reduce vulnerabilities to future earthquakes, it is very important to have a clear understanding of how and why the buildings failed in the previous one. This knowledge is necessary to...
Bangladesh is a disaster prone country which has been facing perennial problems of natural disasters. Most houses in the rural areas in Bangladesh are of non-engineered roof construction which...
Much of the death toll from earthquakes results from collapsing masonry and buildings and another key factor is the reality that these deaths primarily occur in the dwellings of low-income...
The people and agencies involved in post-disaster relief operations would naturally like to utilize their limited resources in best possible way. The various shelter options and technologies...
These leaflets provide information in English and Bangladeshi showing how to build safely.
Active volcanoes are dynamically evolving structures, the life-cycles of which are punctuated by episodes of flank instability and lateral failure. Such behaviour is now recognised as ubiquitous...