Housing Construction Reports

Each housing report is a detailed description of a housing type in a particular country. The description is prepared from a number of standard closed-ended questions and some narrative that have been provided by report authors. Each report has ten major categories, including general information, architectural features, socio-economic issues, structural features, evaluation of seismic features, past earthquake damage, building materials, construction economics, insurance and seismic strengthening. A list of relevant references used in the text is also provided at the end of the each report. Click on the PDF download icon to download each report.

A single-family, two-storey house with brick walls and timber floors
Romania

Adobe / Earthen House
IRAN

Adobe / Earthen House : Adobe block walls
Nicaragua

Adobe / Earthen House : Adobe block walls
Guatemala

Adobe / Earthen House : Mud walls
Honduras

Adobe Arched-Roof
Iran

Adobe house
Peru

Adobe House
Chile

Adobe houses
PAKISTAN

Adobe with sawn timber roof framing and corrugated iron sheeting
Guatemala

Assam-type House
India

Base isolation of confined masonry
Argentina

Block of flats with 11 floors out of cast-in-situ concrete, gliding frameworks
Romania

Brick masonry construction in Pakistan
Pakistan

brick masonry farmhouse with a "dead door"
Italy

Building of the Modern Movement - Reinforced concrete frame designed for gravity loads with no commercial ground floor
Romania

Buildings protected with "disengaging reserve elements" (vyklyuchayu-shchiesya svyazi)
Russian Federation

Buildings with cast in-situ load-bearing reinforced concrete walls
Kyrgyzstan