- Title
- Compliance to building codes for disaster resilience: Bangladesh and Nepal
- Creator
- Ahmed, Iftekhar; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Brewer, Graham; Maund, Kim; von Meding, Jason; Mackee, Jamie
- Relation
- 7th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR2017). 7th International Conference on Building Resilience: Using Scientific Knowledge to Inform Policy and Practice in Disaster Risk Reduction (ICBR2017) [presented in Procedia Engineering, Vol. 212] (Bangkok, Thailand 27-29 November, 2017) p. 986-993
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.127
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This paper reports on a project that explores the opportunities and challenges for compliance with safe building codes for disaster resilience, focusing on two countries-Bangladesh and Nepal. Recent disasters in both countries highlight a significant problem of non-compliance with building codes. However, these disasters have brought institutional and community awareness of the importance of safe building codes, presenting a germane opportunity to explore the issues associated with compliance. Building codes do exist in the two countries, but due to socio-economic, political and cultural conditions compliance is generally lacking or limited, particularly in the large informal building sector. There is thus a need for understanding how these codes might be more widely adopted to enable disaster resilience. Collaboration between partner universities in these countries with experience in this field address: sharing the understanding that evidence-based knowledge is a critical component in the commitment to local action; improving institutional and community awareness of the importance of compliance with/barriers to enforcement of codes; fostering communities of collaborative practice; and developing local and international dissemination networks. A log-frame approach indicates the rationale, assumptions and expected outcomes of the project. The project is at a preliminary stage and this paper discusses the framework associated with the exploration of barriers and enablers to building codes compliance.
- Subject
- building codes; Bangladesh; Nepal; disaster resilience; compliance
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1390160
- Identifier
- uon:33006
- Identifier
- ISSN:1877-7058
- Rights
- © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
- Language
- eng
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