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Joint Efforts to be increased for the resilience of Civil Infrastructures in Nepal
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) and the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal (ISET-N) have agreed to continue the collective efforts on disaster relief, recovery, planning and preparing for future events. After a scientific conference 'Safe Infrastructures for Resilient Communities in Nepal', the partnering institutes have committed to intensify coordination so that the civil infrastructure systems of Kathmandu and Nepal will be more resilient to future earthquakes.
Mr. Sushil Gyewali, Chief Executive Officer of National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) opined in his inaugural remarks that the country is leading towards rebuilding safer and better settlements as guided by Recovery Framework that well covers housing as well as infrastructures. Mr. Gyewali emphasized on the need to translate the learning of last earthquake to better tackle future shocks.
The conference was jointly organized by ETH Zurich, IIT, NSET and ISET-N with funding support from CODEV on 23rd and 24th Oct, 2016 to present the findings of an 18-month long project conducted to gather the data on and quantify the resilience of civil infrastructure systems in Kathmandu during and after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. The conference has emphasized, 'Civil Infrastructure systems are the backbones of modern societies and their resilience is key for safe communities. Participating professionals, scientists and experts from different domains, covering a large expertise in the functioning of multiple civil infrastructure systems intensively engaged in this scientific discourse.
Based on project findings, Dr. Ramesh Guragain from NSET, Jayendra Rimal from ISET-N presented and shared their experiences and international guest speakers, Dr. Bijay Mishra and Dr. Svetlana Brzev gave their remarkable speeches. The project were focused on the electrical power supply, water distribution and telecommunication infrastructure systems as well as on residential building inventory where the newly developed Re-CoDes framework was used to model the evolution of the supply and demand in those systems.
After the presentation, in an interactive workshop sessions, participants collected experiences on vulnerability and recovery of civil infrastructure systems along with housing and reached a commonly agreed set of conclusions on how to increase the resilience of civil infrastructure in Nepal.
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