International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 7 Issue 5

Disaster restoration project management: leadership education and methods

Bassam Baroudi, Randy Rapp

Disaster restoration concerns the mitigation and repair of buildings and property resulting from natural and man-made disasters. This paper aims to investigate current attitudes…

Cost difference of buildings in Kathmandu constructed with and without earthquake safer features

Jishnu Subedi, Ram Mani Ghimire, Ram Prasad Neupane, Sweta Amatya

The purpose of this paper is to investigate increase in the cost of reinforced concrete buildings in Kathmandu valley constructed using earthquake safer features in comparison…

Risk assessment of high schools in Lebanon for potential terrorist threat

Mohamad K. Naja, Hoda Baytiyeh

Terrorist attacks on schools and colleges have disrupted educational processes and caused fear, deaths and tragedies. Considering the recent increase in terrorist attacks on…

Does the use of recycled concrete lower the carbon footprint in humanitarian construction?

Matti Kuittinen

This study investigates the carbon footprint of the alternative structure types and materials used for the reconstruction of schools in Haiti. Are recycled construction materials…

Housing and resilience: case studies from the Cook Islands

Iftekhar Ahmed

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a tool for evaluating resilience of housing, which was tested in the Cook Islands. The Pacific Islands is widely known as being highly…

Development of building inventory for northern Pakistan for seismic risk reduction

Muhammad Masood Rafi, Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Muhammad Ahmed, Amit Kumar, Firoz Verjee

This paper aims to present the studies which were carried out to determine building typology in Northern Pakistan, which is a seismically active region.

Assessment of major causes: nuclear power plant disasters since 1950

Sayanti Mukhopadhyay, Jessica Halligan, Makarand Hastak

This paper aims to investigate the major causes of the nuclear power plant (NPP) disasters since 1950, elucidates the commonalities between them and recommends strategies to…

Achieving supply chain resilience: The contribution of logistics and supply chain capabilities

Santanu Mandal, Rathin Sarathy, Venkateshwar Rao Korasiga, Sourabh Bhattacharya, Surajit Ghosh Dastidar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the inter-relationship among dominant supply chain capabilities of collaboration, flexibility, velocity and visibility and how the same…