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“...guidelines usually do not cope with local financial and professional capacities and resulting low quality works [8]. Hence, international standards, if needed, have to be customized to the context of intervention for an effective implementation and even more, so that they are not counterproductive.
?J. Need for scientific results
Following 2015 Nepali earthquakes, there is a high need for starting reconstruction works, which would be safe for upcoming similar events making proper decisions based on social, cultural, political, and environmental factors. To achieve this goal, the GoN published a design catalogue detailing earthquake resistance guidelines [7]. It includes different types of buildings, most of them with shear bands from various materials, for example timber, bamboo, or concrete. However, people started modifying these technical recommendations during reconstruction works without having proper knowledge on the shear bands sensitivity to these modifications. For example, during field...”
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