POST EARTHQUAKE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION USING LOW COST BUILDING MATERIALS
ABSTRACT
There are several natural disasters occurring throughout the world round the year and one of them is Earthquake. The severe quakes wreak catastrophic havoc in the human community because of destruction of structures - houses and buildings, bridges, roads, railways and uprooting of transmission towers. Along with death the other distressing factor is collapse of dwelling units. Death and destruction can be prevented or vastly minimized if the houses are structurally sound. In a poor country severe earthquake occurs every now and then, the problem of appropriate ‘safe’ housing must receive adequate attention from architects, engineer, builders, and owners of property.
Nowadays the various waste products from big industries has been converted into useful building materials which can be used during post earthquake housing construction, solving the problem of disposal on the one hand and providing better construction material at low cost on the other hand. Similarly some agricultural wastes (as rice husk) have also been converted into building materials, which are very much useful during reconstruction phase as low cost building materials. In the present paper few low cost building material, which can be used during post earthquake housing construction has been highlighted.
ABSTRACT
There are several natural disasters occurring throughout the world round the year and one of them is Earthquake. The severe quakes wreak catastrophic havoc in the human community because of destruction of structures - houses and buildings, bridges, roads, railways and uprooting of transmission towers. Along with death the other distressing factor is collapse of dwelling units. Death and destruction can be prevented or vastly minimized if the houses are structurally sound. In a poor country severe earthquake occurs every now and then, the problem of appropriate ‘safe’ housing must receive adequate attention from architects, engineer, builders, and owners of property.
Nowadays the various waste products from big industries has been converted into useful building materials which can be used during post earthquake housing construction, solving the problem of disposal on the one hand and providing better construction material at low cost on the other hand. Similarly some agricultural wastes (as rice husk) have also been converted into building materials, which are very much useful during reconstruction phase as low cost building materials. In the present paper few low cost building material, which can be used during post earthquake housing construction has been highlighted.
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