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Technical Development to Upgrade Structural Integrity of Buildings in Densely Populated Urban Areas and its Strategic Implementation towards Resilient Cities

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Finished

Technical Development to Upgrade Structural Integrity of Buildings in Densely Populated Urban Areas and its Strategic Implementation towards Resilient Cities

Mitigate earthquake damage in densely populated urban areas!

Principal Investigator

- Prof.
  NAKANO Yoshiaki
  Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
- Mr.
  Md. Ashraful Alam
  Director General, Housing and Building Research Institute

ODA Recipient Country

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Research Institutions in Japan

The University of Tokyo / Tohoku University / Osaka University

Research Institutions in Counterpart Country

Housing and Building Research Institute / Public Works Department / Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology / Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology / University of Asia Pacific / Jahangirnagar University

Adoption fiscal year

FY 2015

Research Period

5 Years

Overview of the Research Project

Develop techniques for seismic evaluation and retrofit of buildings, and propose efficient methods of upgrading their structural integrity.
Although Bangladesh is located in a seismically active region, its capital city Dhaka is one of the world's most vulnerable urban centers due to its unordered and dense urban layout with low-quality building structures. In addition, building design and construction practices as well as structural characteristics differ significantly from those in Japan. To improve Dhaka's earthquake resilience, we aim to jointly develop seismic evaluation and retrofit techniques suitable for buildings in Bangladesh, and upgrading scenarios of urban planning for efficiently deploying them on a societal level.

Achieve safe and secure Dhaka through development of earthquake resilience technology
By upgrading Dhaka's building performance and urban center's resilience against earthquake damage, we aim to develop a safe and secure city and civil infrastructures for stable economic activity. As the techniques developed through this project address urban and building-related issues that are also commonly found in other developing countries, their worldwide dissemination has the potential to contribute to the safer global society.