Repair and Strengthening Guide for Earthquake Damaged Lowrise Domestic Buildings in Gujarat, India

Summary

done by Gujarat Relief Engineering Advice Team (GREAT) The 26 January 2001 earthquake in Kutch, Gujarat has had a devastating affect on the area with many buildings damaged and large loss of life occurring. To date 20,000 people are known to have died and 167,000 people injured. This toll will increase as towns are cleared, an operation that will take many years. We, a small group of professional engineers in the UK, have decided to help in some small way by bringing our expertise to help rebuild the local communities by producing this Guide. We visited the Kutch area following the earthquake. We are also familiar with local building practice as many of our families and relatives living abroad have close ties to the region. The aim of this publication is to make the self-build owners, builders and local engineers aware of the effects of earthquakes on low-rise domestic buildings. These are identified as buildings of up to 2 storey plus attic, which are constructed of rubble masonry, cut-stone masonry and reinforced concrete frame structures. They are referred to as non-engineered buildings because often little or no engineering has gone into their design and they almost certainly have not been designed to resist earthquakes. http://www.arup.com/geotechnics/project.cfm?pageid=701

Publication Year

2001

Topic

Construction | Construction Techniques | Reconstruction | Earthquake resistant | Self help | Traditional