Housing & Hazards

Affordable Village Building Technologies

Dhaka , February 1999

Back to Proceedings

2nd Conference,  1999

Supported by DFID and the British Council

CONTENTS - SECTION 1

J R Choudhury: Building for safety in Bangladesh

MDA Rouf, KN Ashfaque, A Zahid & A Sutradhar: Improvement of the stability of affordable village houses

MA Ansary, SM Seraj and UK Roy: Modelling of a Bangladeshi rural hut for wind tunnel test

UK Roy, SM Seraj, PS Roy & MS Alam: Some aspects towards development of hazard-resistant rural homes in Bangladesh

A Kabir & MM Hasan: Precast ferrocement jackets for brick masonry columns

JB Alam: Application of a neural network model for disaster management in Bangladesh

TM Al-Hussaini, SM Seraj, MK Islam, AMM Safiullah & JR Choudhury: A methodology for selection of post-disaster shelter

G West & S Harding: An interpretation of technical aspects of earth building in Devon, UK