PARTNERS
SAFETY BY MITIGATION AND DISASTER RISK PREPAREDNESS
समिद्रिप SaMiDRiP
SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, NEW DELHI
TRAINING MODULES
Impact Reduction of Earthquake Disaster through Seismo-resistant Architecture
Dr. V.K. Paul, December 2011
"Earthquakes seldom kill people; it is mostly buildings that do so." 11 percent of people exposed to natural hazards live in low human development index countries, accounting for more than 53 percent of the total recorded deaths resulting from natural disasters. In the event of a disaster, schools and other educational infrastructure suffer extensive damage, teachers lose their lives and classes get disrupted. For a family hit by disaster, sending children to school becomes second priority, girl child suffers first.
Security in Urban Context: Planning Issues
Dr. V.K. Paul, July 2011
Security of an urban space is an intangible quality defined more by breach or lost. It involves three components: Prevention, detection and apprehension. Urban security risk is a function of SOCIAL and SPATIAL construction of the urban fabric and depends on the interspersion of positive and negative spaces. Planning for mitigating security risk focuses on prevention through design and providing technological and operational solutions for residual risk minimized through planning initiatives.
Earthquake Disaster and Sustainability
Dr. V.K. Paul, Dec 2011
In 2004 alone, the World Bank estimated annual costs from the world’s natural disasters around US$55 billion (Rs. 2.75Lac Cr.) Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives – pay $23.1 billion (Rs.1.15 Lac Cr.) a year to rich countries and multi-lateral institutions (World Bank and international Monetary Fund) in debt repayments for tsunami relief....
Quality Systems Approach to Seismo-resistant Architecture
Dr. V.K. Paul, Dec 2011
Assurance of structurally safe building has to be backed with efficient and effective, economically rationalized design for perceived risk which has been detailed out taking into account practical constraints. Critical design on structional details needs to be executed and monitored under controlled environment. Focus is needed on structural, non-structural, installations and equipment...