Nepal Earthquake—Present Situation for Reconstruction of Buildings—

Abstract

This paper reports situation for reconstruction of buildings in Kathmandu valley after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. Authors surveyed in Kathmandu and its around cities on November 2018. Although there were severe building damages in Kathmandu, the reconstruction was fast. On the other hand, reconstruction of buildings has been under way in other cities around Kathmandu. Reconstruction of temples has continued and some collapsed buildings were abandoned in even the World Heritage Sites. As building materials of residential buildings, baked and dried bricks and columns and beams of RC construction were dominant. In Nepal, multiple generations family lives in a dwelling, and they build the upper floor of the dwelling as part of renovation. Such as construction culture in Nepal was supposed to make building damage more severe by the earthquake.