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Bosman, Janek (author)
Being a highly earthquake-prone country, Nepal gets hit by a major earthquake roughly every 80-100 years. The recent major tremor in 2015 showed how the houses in the Kathmandu Valley were not ready: 9000 lives and half a million houses were lost. <br/>This thesis describes the changes in earthquake-resistant elements in the residential...
student report 2023
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Brouwer, Wietske (author), van Hamel, Amber (author), van Haren, Mick (author), Kindermann, Paulina (author), Verboeket, Rik (author)
The Kathmandu Valley in Nepal is facing the combined effects of population growth, rapid urbanization, economic development, and climate change. This results in serious water management challenges: growing freshwater demands, declining water tables, drying of streams, and deteriorating water quality. Insufficient surface water supplies have led...
student report 2020
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Worp, Janna (author), Tijdgat, Jim (author), Nijman, Rens (author), Backx, Stephan (author)
After the earthquake in 2015 that struck Nepal, students of the Delft University of Technology commenced the multidisciplinary project program “Shock Safe Nepal”. This report describes the effort of the sixth group of students who travelled to Nepal. Following conclusions and specific recommendations of Team 5, the present research has one main...
student report 2018
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Schepers, Micky (author), Widjaja, Alexandra (author), Vons, Focco (author), Sijbesma, Floris (author), Rossi, Emanuele (author)
Shock Safe Nepal was founded as a response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes to function as a platform to contribute to the development of knowledge on earthquake safe housing. The goal of the report of team 5 is to validate and optimise the design of the pilot house that was created based on the work of previous teams, and the development on...
student report 2017
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Loenis, B.J.C. (author), Spiegeler, J. (author), Zarmpis, M. (author), van Damme, R.E.X. (author), Wiesman, R.L.A. (author)
In April and May 2015 two earthquakes devastated Nepal. Thousands died and a manifold of these were left homeless. In order to aid the reconstruction of Nepal, Delft University of Technology initiated a research project called Shock Safe Nepal, in which multiple teams build on each other’s topics in order to help rebuild Nepal in an earthquake...
student report 2016
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Oosterhof, A.J. (author), Düzgün, B.C. (author), Spelt, C.J. (author), De Stoppelaar, A.O. (author), Van Wijnbergen, E.C.M. (author)
As a response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes Shock Safe Nepal was founded to function as platform intended to contribute to the development of knowledge on earthquake safe housing. The project started on initiative of the Consul General of Nepal to The Netherlands Cas de Stoppelaar and the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CiTG) of...
student report 2016
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