Single Story CONFINED MASONRY Houses for INDONESIA

• Design Drawings and Floor Plans
  • Type A Floor Plan
  • Type B Floor Plan
  • Full Drawing Set, Bills of Quantity and Bar Bending Schedules - Available Upon Request


• Design and Construction Case History and Guideline

CASE HISTORY: Design and Construction of Confined Masonry Houses in Indonesia: Challenges, Performance in Earthquakes, and Need for Future Research - Draft in Preparation for 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering - Available Upon Request

GUIDELINE: Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction Guideline for Single Story Reinforced Concrete Confined Masonry (copyright 2006 Build Change)

• Title and Sources
• Seismic Hazard in Aceh
• Confined Masonry vs RC Frame
• Configuration
• Connections
• Confined Masonry Failure Modes
• Construction Quality - Foundations
• Construction Quality - Steel
• Construction Quality - Masonry
• Construction Quality - Concrete
• Siting and Soils
• Closure


• Simple Construction Booklet for Homeowners and Builders
  • In Press - Coming Soon (English)
  • In Press - Coming Soon (Bahasa Indonesia)


• Posters and Flyers
  • GOOD CONNECTIONS SAVE LIVES Poster - Connections Between Confining Elements (Bahasa Indonesia)
  • STRONG MASONRY WALLS SAVE LIVES Poster - Good Quality Masonry (Bahasa Indonesia - Coming Soon)
  • CHOOSE TIMBER Poster - Timber Construction Can Be Less Expensive and More Earthquake-Resistant than Poorly Built Confined Masonry (Bahasa Indonesia - Coming Soon)
  • EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT FEATURES of CONFINED MASONRY HOUSES Flyer for Indonesia Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Program

Single Story TIMBER FRAME with MASONRY SKIRT Houses for INDONESIA

• Design Drawings and Floor Plans
  • Full Drawing Set, Bills of Quantity and Bar Bending Schedules - Available Upon Request

Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Reports

• May 12, 2008 Wenchuan, China
  • Observations and Opportunities for Technical Assistance
  • Residential Buildings Summary
  • Rural Residential Buildings
  • Multi-Story Residential Buildings
  • Surface Fault Rupture and Xiao Yu Dong Bridge
  • Permanent Ground Displacement and Gao Yuan Bridge
    
    
• September 12 and 13, 2007 West Sumatra and Bengkulu, Indonesia
  • EERI Newsletter Insert
  • Full Report (English)
  • Full Report (Bahasa Indonesia)
    
    
• May 27, 2006 Central Java, Indonesia
  • EERI Newsletter Insert
  • Full Report (English)
  • Full Report (Bahasa Indonesia)
    
    
• December 26, 2003 Bam, Iran
  • "Intermediate Shelters in Bam and Permanent Shelter Reconstruction in Villages following the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake", co-authored with Dr. Bijan Khazai, in December 2005 Special Issue of Earthquake Spectra. Available Online (by subscription).

Publications and Seminars

Performance of Confined Masonry Houses During Earthquakes in Indonesia: Successes, Problems and Solutions, Presented at the International Symposium on Disaster in Indonesia: Problems and Solutions, 26 - 28 July 2007, Padang, West Sumatra

Build Change's Indonesia Post-Tsunami Housing Reconstruction May 2006 SEAONC newsletter.

Bhuj, India Earthquake Reconstruction. "Housing Reconstruction and Retrofitting After the 2001 Kachchh Gujarat Earthquake", 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper No. 1723, August 1-6, 2004. Contact us for a copy.

EERI Learning from Earthquakes Report. Detailed results from a 10-month long field study on the change in construction practice following the 1993 Chamoli, 1999 Killari, and 2001 Bhuj, India earthquakes. The report is currently in production. Contact us for more information, or read the following publication for a summary.

Criteria for Permanent Change in Construction Practice. "Long-Term Change in Construction Practice Through Post-Earthquake Reconstructions", 1st International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Japan, January 18-20, 2005. Contact us for a copy.

September 10, 2008: Build Change Named 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation
Build Change was named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate in the Equality category for the Tech Awards for Technology Benefiting Humanity, a signature program of the Tech Museum of Innovation. Read the Press Release.

August 1, 2008: Build Change Opens an Office in Sichuan, China
With support of Mercy Corps and Echoing Green, Build Change is providing technical assistance and training to homeowners and builders affected by the May 12 earthquake. Join our team by applying for the Sichuan Program Manager/Structural Engineer position.

June 30, 2008: Reconnaissance to Sichuan
Build Change's Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, visited the earthquake-affected area to understand why buildings failed and make plans to support earthquake-resistant housing reconstruction. Using unconfined precast concrete plank floors on top of unreinforced masonry walls caused most of the devastation (foreground in photo below), but some confined masonry buildings performed flawlessly (background).

Visit the Technical Resources page under post-earthquake recon reports for more information, and support the homeowners to rebuild earthquake-resistant houses so they never have to face such tragedy again. DONATE NOW

May 12, 2008: Devastation in China
69,185 killed. 374,171 injured. 18,467 missing. More than 7.79 million houses destroyed and 24.5 million damaged. 5 million homeless, and 10 million now living below the poverty line after a M7.9 earthquake.

January 28, 2008 : On Video!
Elizabeth Hausler explains to Global X that she was finishing her Ph.D. in engineering at Berkeley when an earthquake hit India and killed 20,000 people. That's when she realized that "it's not the earthquake that kills people, it's the building collapsing."

See the video.