Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Performance of Hospitals: Yos Sudarso

This hospital has 145 beds and provides the full range of medical services including surgery, radiology, and even dental care. There are 7 main buildings on the hospital campus, almost of which are 3-story structures built with concrete moment frames with clay brick infill walls, concrete slab floors, and wood framed pitched roofs. The original […]

Hospitals are heavily damaged in earthquake hit area

  Rapid assessment team from WHO and Ministry of Health found hospitals in worst hit area of earthquake in Sindhupalchowk, Nuwakot, Rasuawa and Ramechhap districts severely damaged or completely destroyed. The assessment team visited 21 hospitals in 12 of the districts impacted severely by the earthquake to gather information and found that a total of […]

WHO hospital situation report on Nepal earthquake

Emergency and Humanitarian Action- WHO situation report: who-sitrep8-3-may-2015   Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology Anna Weiser-Woodward is Graduate Engineer at Walter P. Moore Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify […]

Pre earthquake- Guidelines for seismic assessment of hospitals in Nepal

  Here is the simple first level seismic assessment guidelines for hospitals in Nepal developed by NSET. Pre earthquake- guidelines of hospital assesment in Nepal   Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology Anna Weiser-Woodward is Graduate Engineer at Walter […]

Pre earthquake – non-structural assessment of hospital in nepal

This report on non-structural assessment of Nepalese hospitals provides details of content and status before the earthquake. Situation now might have been changed but the report gives general picture of Nepalese hospitals. pre earthqauke – Non structural assessment of Nepal hospitals   Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction […]

Grande International Hospital Facebook Update

 Grande International Hospital Facebook Update   Figure 1. Hospital message after the earthquake.           Figure 2. Building inspection. Figure 3. Grande International Hospital.               Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology Anna Weiser-Woodward […]

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Equipment, Utilities, Architectural Shell & Contents at Kathmandu Hospital

This report details a seismic vulnerability assessment conducted in 2013 for the National Academy of Medical Sciences (Bir Hospital) in Kathmandu, Nepal Bir Hospital Initial Seismic Vulnerability Assessment   Bishnu Pandey is Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Construction and the Environment at British Columbia Institute of Technology Anna Weiser-Woodward is Graduate Engineer at Walter […]

Hospital Built by China in Nepal Withstands Earthquake

The Civil Service Hospital in Minbhawan, Katmandu, a China-aid project built in 2008, has been honored as the “Strongest Building,” and has served as an important rescue center following the April 25 earthquake. The article reports the following about the seismic performance of the hospital: Major structure, including the outer wall, doors, windows and glass are solid […]