Assoc. Prof. Aiko Furukawa and Prof. Junji Kiyono of the joint research team on urban seismic risk assessment published a paper with three other co-authors in the Frontiers in Built Environment. The title of the paper is “Evaluation of Damage to a Historic Masonry Building in Nepal through Comparison of Dynamic Characteristics before and after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.” The paper can be accessed using … Continue reading Paper by the joint research team on urban seismic risk assessment published in Frontiers

An Image Scenario Workshop was conducted under the GGS Project joint research on Disaster Education on August 11, 2017 at the Clock Tower in Sainbu Village in Lalitpur Metropolitan City. A total of 13 students and nine teachers participated in the workshop. The students and teachers were divided into four groups. They were then asked to recall their experience of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and … Continue reading Image Scenario Workshop in Kathmandu

Dr. Glenn Fernandez, GGS Project Researcher, and Mr. Sujan, an architecture student at Tribhuvan University, went back to Khokana to verify some details in the house drawings prepared after the full survey conducted in November 2016 and to interview residents about the progress of housing reconstruction in the area. Continue reading Final fieldwork for joint research on risk perception and housing reconstruction in Khokana