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Building Capacity in Delhi to Seismically Retrofit Existing Important Buildings
India's fast-growing capital city of Delhi, home to over 14 million people, faces substantial earthquake hazards from both distant, large-magnitude earthquakes in the Himalayas and smaller, local events. The Delhi metropolitan area contains an amalgam of existing building types: old and recently constructed, illegally built and well-designed, humble brick houses and gleaming new high-rises. Many of these buildings are seismically vulnerable and will threaten the lives of Delhi's inhabitants, if a major earthquake strikes. To help reduce Delhi's earthquake risk, GeoHazards International (GHI) conducted a project to build the capacity of the Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) to assess and seismically retrofit vulnerable existing buildings that have important post-earthquake functions. Improved seismic performance of these buildings both protects the government employees working there and enables them to respond more effectively to disastrous earthquake events. GHI utilized a practical learning approach, in which a peer review panel from India and the United States mentored Delhi PWD engineers as they seismically retrofitted government buildings.
Building Capacity in Delhi to Seismically Retrofit Existing Important Buildings
India's fast-growing capital city of Delhi, home to over 14 million people, faces substantial earthquake hazards from both distant, large-magnitude earthquakes in the Himalayas and smaller, local events. The Delhi metropolitan area contains an amalgam of existing building types: old and recently constructed, illegally built and well-designed, humble brick houses and gleaming new high-rises. Many of these buildings are seismically vulnerable and will threaten the lives of Delhi's inhabitants, if a major earthquake strikes. To help reduce Delhi's earthquake risk, GeoHazards International (GHI) conducted a project to build the capacity of the Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) to assess and seismically retrofit vulnerable existing buildings that have important post-earthquake functions. Improved seismic performance of these buildings both protects the government employees working there and enables them to respond more effectively to disastrous earthquake events. GHI utilized a practical learning approach, in which a peer review panel from India and the United States mentored Delhi PWD engineers as they seismically retrofitted government buildings.
Building Capacity in Delhi to Seismically Retrofit Existing Important Buildings
Rodgers, J. E. (Autor:in) / Kumar, H. (Autor:in) / Tobin, L. T. (Autor:in)
ATC and SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures ; 2009 ; San Francisco, California, United States
07.12.2009
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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