The CBRI will start a detailed study from Thursday to assess the safety of 4,000 buildings.
New Delhi:
The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) has proposed to develop a disaster-resilient model town to rehabilitate people displaced from the sinking Uttarakhand town of Joshimath.
The Roorkee-based Institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has also suggested a three-pronged action plan for Joshimath that envisages demolishing leaning buildings, assessing the safety of the existing 4,000 buildings and providing intermediate shelters to displaced people. Has been done. CBRI director R Pradeep Kumar said.
Kumar, accompanied by CBRI senior scientists DP Kanungo and Ajay Chaurasia, visited Joshimath on Monday to assess the situation in the Himalayan mountain town in the Kumaon region and discussed the matter with officials of the National Disaster Management Authority and the Uttarakhand government. discussed.
“It is proposed to develop a disaster-resilient model town using cost-effective construction technique i.e. confined masonry along with urban planning at a safe identified site,” he said.
Kumar said CBRI will provide housing planning, design and construction advice based on the inputs received from the Uttarakhand government regarding the number of houses and topographic survey at the selected safe identified site.
“The technology has advantages – it uses locally available building materials, skills, adapted to local conditions, disaster-friendly and affordable,” he said.
He said the CBRI will start a detailed study from Thursday for safety assessment of 4,000 buildings to have a deeper understanding of the buildings’ structure, construction practice, building typology, condition, assessment of distress, if any, and monitoring of cracks. Could
“The field observation will find out the possible causes of structural damage and comparison with baseline data will decide further strategy for its use,” Kumar said.
Crack meters will be installed at various locations to monitor cracks in the identified houses, he said, adding that based on the progressive crack width measurement, the building vulnerability will be classified into different classes.
He said that there are different categories of vulnerability of houses – Highly vulnerable, Moderately vulnerable, Moderately vulnerable, Safe, Collapsed/demolished.
This activity is likely to be completed within a week, he added.
Kumar said that light steel portal frame structures with vertical sides would be deployed at safer places to provide intermediate shelter to the rehabilitated people of Joshimath.
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