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Nepal: Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Project (KVERMP)
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School Earthquake Safety Project (SESP)
Demontration Project: School Retrofitting
Bubaneswori Lower Secondary School, Nanakhel Village Development Committee

Bhaktapur District, Nepal
Photo Journal


1. Bubaneswori School, retrofitted under KVERMP, under the Demonstration Phase.

 

  

2. A civil engineer of NSET/KVERMP, explaining how the main beams walls are reinforced while retrofitting.

 


3. Inside of a class room showing the retroffitted wall pillars Bubaneswori, and joints.

  

4. The Bubaneswori School from a distance. Note its retrofitted safety distinctness from other surrounding houses.

 


5. Inside of a classroom in Bubaneswori School. The yellow parts on the wall are called "stitching". It reinforces the walls and hold the joints between pillars and walls together duirng earthquakes.

 

  

6. Retrofitting of tin roofs. Tin roofs are retrofitted by reinforcing with a cross-section of additional smaller beams and joining them with a metallatch and nails. This technique is called "netting".

 


7. The gentleman standing on the right is the local mason from who was the team leader of the mason team who retrofitted the school, after being trained under KVERMP on retrofitting.

 

  

8. This house was constructed by the mason above with seismic features. The local masons trained under KVERMP have retrofitted several houses in the village since they completed the retrofitting of the Bubaneswori School.

 

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