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World Housing Encyclopedia

How does construction vary around the world

The World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE) is an online repository of resources related to housing construction practices in seismically active areas worldwide. It includes housing reports, tutorials, and other publications. The mission is to share experiences with different construction practices and building typologies and encourage the use of earthquake-resistant housing construction worldwide.

The WHE has developed and published around 150 housing reports, covering common residential construction typologies from around 50 countries. Each housing report is a detailed description of a housing type in a particular country. The description is prepared from a number of standard closed-ended questions and includes a narrative provided by the report authors. Each report has ten major categories, including general information, architectural features, socio-economic issues, structural features, evaluation of seismic features, past earthquake damage, building materials, construction economics, insurance, and seismic strengthening. A list of relevant references used in the text is also provided at the end of each report.

The WHE was founded in 2000 by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). The WHE housing reports were originally developed and reviewed by volunteers, engineers and architects from around the world. The report review and editing process has been managed by the WHE leadership, and hosted on the EERI website. The current version of the reports, presented in the Wiki form, is a joint initiative of WHE and Global Earthquake Model (GEM).

These housing reports can be used for educational and non-commercial purposes only, but WHE needs to be acknowledged as the source of the material. Also, should you consider using any part of this material in any publication of your own, you must get written permission from EERI. All of the content on this site has been contributed by volunteers. If you are interested in writing a housing report, tutorial, or have any other ideas for content, please reach out to us at whe@eeri.org.

Housing Reports

	Adobe	Seismic Protection Systems	Hybrid	Masonry	News	Others	Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall	Steel	Timber	Uncategorized	Vernacular
Algeria				(SM) Farsi et al., 2011			(RCF) Farsi e Lazzali, 2011
Argentina	Rodriguez et al., 2011 Rodriguez, 2011	Maldonado e Tornello, 2011		(CM) Rodriguez et al., 2011 (CM) Rodriguez et al., 2011
Bangladesh	Das et al., 2011			(UM) Ansary, 2011
Belize				(RM) Redmond & DesRoches, 2012			Redmond e DesRoches, 2012		Redmond e DesRoches, 2012
Canada							(RCW) Pao e Brzev, 2011		Ventura e Kharrazi, 2011
Chile				(CM) Moroni et al., 2011 (CM) Moroni et al., 2011 (RM) Moroni et al., 2011			(RCF) Moroni et al., 2011 (RCW) Moroni e Gomez, 2011	(SSW) Arze-L., 2011
China		Zhou, 2011
Colombia				(CM) Mejia, 2011 (RM) Hackmayer et al., 2013 (UM) Mejia, 2011 (UM) Mejia, 2011	Hackmayer et al., 2013		(RCW) Meija et al., 2011
Cyprus							(RCF) Levtchitch, 2011
El Salvador	Lopez, 2011								Lang et al., 2011		Lopez M. et al., 2011
Germany								(SMF) Bostenaru, 2011
Greece				(SM) Tassios & Syrmakezis, 2011			(RCF) Koumousis, 2011 (RCF) Tassios e Syrmakezis, 2011
Guatemala	Lang et al., 2011 French, 2011			(RM) Jofre et al., 2012
Honduras	French, 2011
India	Sood et al., 2013 Kumar, 2011 Choudhary et al., 2011		Rahul et al., 2013 Rautela et al., 2011	(SM) Sood et al., 2013 (SM) Rautela et al., 2011 (SM) Sinha & Ambati, 2011 (SM) Brzev et al., 2011 (UM) Kumar & Pundit, 2011 (UM) Kumar, 2011 (UM) Sinha & Brzev, 2011 (UM) Khan & Moin, 2011	Sood et al., 2013	Rahul et al., 2013	(RCF) Jaiswal et al., 2011		Kaushik e Babu, 2012 Rautela et al., 2011 Khan, 2011		Sinha e Ambati, 2011 Choudhary et al., 2011 Kumar, 2011 Brzev et al., 2011
Indonesia				(UM) Wijanto, 2011
Iran	Mehrain & Naeim, 2011			(CM) Hashemi et al., 2011 (SM) Ahari & Azarbakht, 2015 (UM) Bekloo, 2011 (UM) Bekloo, 2011				(SMF) Alimoradi, 2011 (SBF) Hashemi e Ashtiany, 2011
Italy				(SM) Vetturini et al., 2011 (SM) Vetturini et al., 2011 (SM) Sassu & Cei, 2011 (SM) D’Ayala & Speranza, 2011 (UM) Goretti et al., 2011 (UM) D’Ayala et al., 2011			(RCF) Leggeri et al., 2011				D'Ayala e Speranza, 2011
Japan									Maki e Tanaka, 2011
Kazakhstan	Uranova & Begaliev, 2011
Kyrgyzstan		Eisenberg et al., 2011		(CM) Begaliev & Uranova, 2011 (UM) Uranova & Begaliev, 2011 (UM) Uranova & Begaliev, 2011			(PC) Uranova e Begaliev, 2011 (PC) Begaliev et al., 2011 (RCW) Uranova et al., 2011 (RCW) Uranova e Begaliev, 2011 (RCW) Itskov et al., 2011		Begaliev e Uranova, 2011		Begaliev e Uranova, 2011
Malawi	Sassu & Ngoma, 2011 Sassu & Ngoma, 2011 Sassu & Ngoma, 2011										Sassu e Ngoma, 2011 Sassu e Ngoma, 2011
Malaysia							(RCF) Adnan et al., 2011
Mexico				(CM) Tena-Colunga et al., 2011			(RCF) Rodriguez e Jarque, 2011
Nepal				(SM) Parajuli et al., 2011 (SM) Parajuli et al., 2011 (UM) D’Ayala & Bajracharya, 2011			(RCF) Marhatta et al., 2011				Parajuli et al., 2011 Parajuli et al., 2011
Nicaragua	French, 2011								Lang et al., 2011
Pakistan	Lodi et al., 2013			(SM) Ali & Muhammad, 2011 (UM) Lodi et al., 2013 (UM) Lodi et al., 2013 (UM) Ali, 2011			Lodi et al., 2013 (RCF) Badrashi et al., 2011
Palestinian Territories				(SM) Dabbeek & Al-Jawhari, 2011			(RCF) Dabbeek e Al-Jawhari, 2011
Peru	Quiun, 2011 Loaiza et al., 2011			(CM) Loaiza & Blondet, 2011 (CM) Loaiza & Blondet, 2011
Portugal			Cardoso et al., 2011	(SM) Cardoso et al., 2011					Cardoso, 2011		Cardoso et al., 2011
Romania				(UM) Bostenaru & Sandu, 2011 (UM) Bostenaru & Sandu, 2011			(PC) Bostenaru e Sandu, 2011 (RCF) Bostenaru, 2011 (RCF) Bostenaru, 2011 (RCF) Bostenaru e Sandu, 2011 (RCW) Bostenaru, 2011 (RCW) Bostenaru e Sandu, 2011
Russia		Eisenberg et al., 2011		(UM) Klyachko et al., 2011			(PC) Klyachko et al., 2011 (PC) Klyachko et al., 2011		Klyachko et al., 2011 Klyachko et al., 2011	Klyachko et al., 2011	Klyachko et al., 2011
Serbia				(CM) Muravljov & Dimitrijevic, 2011			(PC) Dimitrijevic, 2011
Slovenia				(SM) Lutman & Tomazevic, 2011 (UM) Lutman & Tomazevic, 2011							Lutman e Tomazevic, 2011 Lutman e Tomazevic, 2011
Switzerland				(SM) Lang & Bachmann, 2011					Bostenaru, 2011 Bostenaru, 2011
Syria							(RCF) Awad et al., 2011 (RCF) Awad et al., 2011
Taiwan							(RCF) Tung e Yao, 2011 (RCF) Yao e Sheu, 2011 (RCF) Yao e Sheu, 2011
Trinidad and Tobago				(UM) Clarke & Ramnath, 2011
Turkey							(RCF) Gulkan et al., 2011 (RCW) Yakut e Gulkan., 2011
USA							(RCF) Faison et al., 2011		Arnold, 2011
Uzbekistan							(PC) Khakimov e Nurtaev, 2011
Venezuela							(RCF) Gandica e Almansa, 2011

PC -Precast Concrete; RCF - RC Moment Frame; RCW - RC Structural Wall; CM - Confined Masonry; RM - Reinforced Masonry; SM - Stone Masonry; SW - Steel Structural Wall; SMF - Steel Moment Frame; SBF - Steel Braced Frame