A working group on Construction Guidelines, chaired by Tom Schacher, 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 summer 2014.
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:
| ORGANIZATION | GUIDELINE |
| Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Construction Guide for Low-Rise Confined Masonry Buildings
ENGLISH [9 MB] Intro in English SPANISH [51 MB] Intro in Spanish |
| Competence Center for Reconstruction/ Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Humanitarian Aid/ Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Guidebook for Building Earthquake-Resistant Houses in Confined Masonry (2018 edition)
ENGLISH [10 MB] TURKISH [10 MB]
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| UNESCO | Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-Engineered Construction [Chapter4: Masonry Buildings in Fired-Brick and Other Materials] (2014)
ENGLISH [1MB] |
| COUNTRY | GUIDELINE |
| Colombia | Asociación Colombiana de Ingeniería Sísmica (AIS) SPANISH [9.2 MB] SENA Guia: Construcción de casas sismo resistentes de uno y dos pisos SPANISH [8.5 MB] |
| Ecuador | Construir Mejor con Mampostería Confinada SPANISH [12 MB] Guía para la Construcción de Viviendas Sismo-resistentes en Mampostería Confinada SPANISH [16 MB] |
| Haiti | Confined Masonry Workshop Handbook (Totten) |
| Indonesia | Build Change Construction Constructing Seismic Resistant Masonry Houses in Indonesia (Boen) ENGLISH [3 MB]
Build Change Construction Checklist ENGLISH/INDONESIAN [116 kB] Build Change Design Calculations ENGLISH [403 kB] |
| Iran | Earthquake Resistant Masonry-Buildings (UNESCO) ENGLISH [749 KB] |
| Mexico | Cartilla breve para refuerzo de la vivienda rural SPANISH [2.9 MB] |
| Pakistan | Confined Masonry for 1 & 2 story buildings (Schacher) ENGLISH [4 MB] FRENCH [4 MB] Confined Masonry Guidelines (Ali, UET Peshawar) ENGLISH [3.7 MB] Pakistan ERRA Guideline ENGLISH [3.7 MB] |
| Peru | Construction and Maintenance of Masonry Houses ENGLISH [3.5 MB] Chapter 4: Confined Masonry Housing SPANISH [6.7 MB] Construction Procedures SPANISH [1.9 MB] |
| Switzerland | Guidebook for Building Earthquake-Resistant Houses in Confined Masonry ENGLISH [13 MB] |
| Venezuela | Cartilla de Autoconstrucción Sismorresistente SPANISH [2 MB] |