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Posters on earthquake resistant building techniques Suji, Manoj

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The National Reconstruction Authority came up with various earthquake resistant house designs after the 2015 earthquake. All of the designs emphasise banding walls to other structural elements of the house. These two hoarding boards in the Nepali language provide instructions on (1, left) earthquake resistant roof construction design via a detailed drawing and (2, right) the use of cement mortar in stonework walls. Taken during the 1st phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/.

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Title
Posters on earthquake resistant building techniques
Creator
Suji, Manoj
Contributor
Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project)
Date Issued
2018-05-05
Description
The National Reconstruction Authority came up with various earthquake resistant house designs after the 2015 earthquake. All of the designs emphasise banding walls to other structural elements of the house. These two hoarding boards in the Nepali language provide instructions on (1, left) earthquake resistant roof construction design via a detailed drawing and (2, right) the use of cement mortar in stonework walls. Taken during the 1st phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/.
Subject
Building codes; Building materials; Earthquake resistant buildings
Geographic Location
Sindhu Pālchok (Nepal)
Type
Still Image
Language
nep
Notes
This image is part of a collection produced by the collaborative research partnership, ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’, which was funded by SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 890-2016-0011 from 2017-2021. Additional support was provided by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Arts, the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, and the Department of Anthropology at UBC. Sara Shneiderman (Associate Professor, Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) served as Principal Investigator, along with Co-Investigators Philippe Le Billon (Professor, Geography and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) and Katharine Rankin (Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto). The research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, included Jeevan Baniya, Bina Limbu, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Manoj Suji, who worked in partnership with Nabin Rawal of the Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. The photographic collection was curated by Khem Shreesh of Social Science Baha in collaboration with Emily Homolka of UBC’s School of Information, with additional support from Emily Amburgey and Jonathan Eaton of UBC’s Department of Anthropology. Full information about the project is available at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/
Date Available
2020-07-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0392138
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74927
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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