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Construction Guidelines


The working group on Construction Guidelines is developing a template for a generic construction guideline that can be adapted for different geographic regions and cultural and construction practices.  This template should be available in the March 2012.

You can read more about this project HERE

As part of this development, the group has reviewed existing construction guidelines from various countries.  At this point in the project, these are being posted without review–the project soon hopes to post some additional information for each that would help a user decide which guideline might be most appropriate for a particular situation.

Construction Guidelines:

COUNTRY (OR ORGANIZATION) GUIDELINE
Argentina Argentina_INPRES-CIRSOC 103-III (in Spanish)
Colombia Colombia_mamposteria_lared
SENA Guia
Haiti Masonry Guidelines in English (Totten)
Masonry Guidelines in Creole (Totten)
International Association for Earthquake Engineering IAEE_Chapter4: Buildings in Fired Brick and Other Masonry Units
Indonesia Build Change Construction Manual
Constructing Seismically Resistant Masonry Houses (Boen)
Build Change Construction Checklist
Build Change Design Calculations
Iran Earthquake Resistant Masonry Buildings (UNESCO)
Mexico Cartilla breve para refuerzo de la vivienda rural (in Spanish)
Pakistan Confined Masonry for 1 & 2 story buildings (Schacher)
Confined Masonry for 1 & 2 story buildings (Schacher) (in French)
Confined Masonry Guidelines (Ali, UET Peshawar)
Pakistan_ERRA_Guideline.pdf
Peru Construction and Maintenance of Masonry Houses
Chapter 4: Confined Masonry Housing (in Spanish)
Construction Procedures (in Spanish)
Venezuela Seismically Resistant Self-Construction (in Spanish)