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Building Earthquake proof schools and saving lives in Nepal

Earthquake Engineers and Earth Scientists from the University of Bristol have been working with local experts, governments, and NGOs in Nepal to develop ways to make buildings and communities safer – starting with schools.
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Anastasios Sextos, Professor of Earthquake Engineering at the University of Bristol and Principal Investigator of the SAFER Nepal project said: “We cannot prevent earthquakes from happening, but we can devise smart, low cost solutions to mitigate seismic risk and improve our resilience to extreme events”.
The SAFER Schools project marries cutting edge research and laboratory-based testing with co-produced solutions developed with and by communities in Nepal. For the project to succeed the solutions had to be affordable, locally sourced and acceptable to local people. They worked with local experts, the Government of Nepal, the Universities of Kathmandu and Tribhuvan, Arup International Development, NSET, Save the Children as well as teachers, parents and school pupils in Nepal.