Joshimath sinking: Disaster resilient mannequin city proposed for displaced residents

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) has proposed to develop a disaster-resilient mannequin city to rehabilitate folks displaced from the sinking Uttarakhand city of Joshimath.

The Roorkee-based institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has additionally prompt a three-pronged motion plan for Joshimath that envisages the demolition of tilted buildings, security evaluation of current 4,000 buildings and offering intermediate shelters to the displaced folks, CBRI Director R Pradeep Kumar mentioned.

Kumar, together with senior CBRI scientists D P Kanoongo and Ajay Chourasia, visited Joshimath on Monday to evaluate the scenario within the city nestled in Himalayan mountain ranges within the Kumaon area and deliberated the matter with officers from the National Disaster Management Authority and the Uttarakhand authorities.

“It is proposed to develop a disaster resilient model town, using cost-effective building technology i.e. confined masonry, along with urban planning on a safe identified site,” he mentioned.

Kumar mentioned the CBRI shall present habitat planning, design, and development recommendation, based mostly on the inputs from the Uttarakhand authorities relating to the variety of homes and topography survey at a particular secure recognized website.

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“The advantages of the technology are – it makes use of locally available construction materials, skills, compatible to local conditions, disaster resilient and affordable,” he mentioned.

The CBRI will begin an in depth research for security evaluation of 4,000 buildings from Thursday to have a deeper understanding of the buildings’ configuration, development observe, constructing typology, situation, misery evaluation, if any, and monitoring of cracks, he mentioned.

“The field observation shall lead to possible causes for structural damage and comparison with the baseline data, and to decide further strategies for its usage,” Kumar mentioned.

Crack meters shall be put in at completely different areas to watch the cracks in recognized homes, he mentioned, including that based mostly on the progressive crack width measurements, the constructing vulnerability shall be categorised into numerous courses.

The vulnerability of homes in several classes are, “highly vulnerable, moderately vulnerable, slightly vulnerable, safe, collapsed/to be demolished,” he mentioned.

The exercise is more likely to be accomplished inside one week, he added.

Kumar mentioned light-weight metal portal body buildings with vertical sides shall be deployed at secure areas to supply intermediate shelters to the rehabilitated folks of Joshimath.

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NEW DELHI: The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) has proposed to develop a disaster-resilient mannequin city to rehabilitate folks displaced from the sinking Uttarakhand city of Joshimath.

The Roorkee-based institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has additionally prompt a three-pronged motion plan for Joshimath that envisages the demolition of tilted buildings, security evaluation of current 4,000 buildings and offering intermediate shelters to the displaced folks, CBRI Director R Pradeep Kumar mentioned.

Kumar, together with senior CBRI scientists D P Kanoongo and Ajay Chourasia, visited Joshimath on Monday to evaluate the scenario within the city nestled in Himalayan mountain ranges within the Kumaon area and deliberated the matter with officers from the National Disaster Management Authority and the Uttarakhand authorities.

“It is proposed to develop a disaster resilient model town, using cost-effective building technology i.e. confined masonry, along with urban planning on a safe identified site,” he mentioned.

Kumar mentioned the CBRI shall present habitat planning, design, and development recommendation, based mostly on the inputs from the Uttarakhand authorities relating to the variety of homes and topography survey at a particular secure recognized website.

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“The advantages of the technology are – it makes use of locally available construction materials, skills, compatible to local conditions, disaster resilient and affordable,” he mentioned.

The CBRI will begin an in depth research for security evaluation of 4,000 buildings from Thursday to have a deeper understanding of the buildings’ configuration, development observe, constructing typology, situation, misery evaluation, if any, and monitoring of cracks, he mentioned.

“The field observation shall lead to possible causes for structural damage and comparison with the baseline data, and to decide further strategies for its usage,” Kumar mentioned.

Crack meters shall be put in at completely different areas to watch the cracks in recognized homes, he mentioned, including that based mostly on the progressive crack width measurements, the constructing vulnerability shall be categorised into numerous courses.

The vulnerability of homes in several classes are, “highly vulnerable, moderately vulnerable, slightly vulnerable, safe, collapsed/to be demolished,” he mentioned.

The exercise is more likely to be accomplished inside one week, he added.

Kumar mentioned light-weight metal portal body buildings with vertical sides shall be deployed at secure areas to supply intermediate shelters to the rehabilitated folks of Joshimath.

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