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 autumn 2009.
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 |
| International Association for Earthquake Engineering | IAEE_Chapter4: Buildings in Fired Brick and Other Masonry Units |
| Indonesia | Build Change Construction Manual Constructing Seismically Resistant 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) CM for 1 & story buildings (Schacher).pdf (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) |