Acknowledgement

Earthquake Risk Reduction and Recovery Preparedness Programme for Nepal (ERRRP Project)
with the financial support of Government of Japan and UNDP- Nepal is assigned in carrying out
various activities related to Earthquake safety and recovery preparedness in five identified
municipalities located in 5 different development region of Nepal. This program has helped to
strengthen the institutional and community level capacity to plan and implement earthquake risk
reduction and disaster recovery preparedness in the country through capacity building, public
education and awareness, retrofitting demonstration and preparation of study reports on building
safety against seismic risk.

To ensure earthquake resistant construction, appropriate knowledge needs to be disseminated to

a broad spectrum of professional engineers and designers. This manual is therefore expected to
be useful to designers & engineering professionals in general and to those involved in analysis,
design and construction of buildings in particular. Broader use of this training manual will
definitely raise earthquake safety awareness and will be useful in achieving highly important
objective of the government to reduce urban risks including earthquakes.

I appreciate and acknowledge the efforts of the project officials and professionals' team in
preparing this manual. I encourage the users of this manual for providing creative comments and
suggestions to further improve the content and context to make this book more user-friendly.

Purna Kadariya
Secretary,
Ministry of Physical Panning and Works