Practices Adopted in Developed Countries for Multistoried Buildings for Earthquake and Fire

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In developed countries, hazard mapping is done using Geographical Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). In India, till date we have not been using these tools effectively and efficiently due to lack of information and accessibility to advanced software. GIS has proved to be a very good tool for hazard mapping (Westen, Lorena, Boerboom and Badilla, 2002). For developing hazard maps, combination of spatial information together with community based local knowledge is important. GIS helps in effective storing, updating, accessing, map developing and sharing of information. It can thus act as a risk assessment tool for providing necessary information for planning, zoning and decision making (lidija & Ivan, 2009). Mitigation strategies can be planned for any disaster using the information available and map formulated in GIS. This research paper emphasises on the existing practices adopted in developed countries for multi-storeyed buildings for the effect of earthquake and fire simultaneously. Efforts have also been made to study the gap existing in practices adopted in India and developed countries in this regard. National Building Code (NBC) – 2005 has also been studied to compare the fire suppression techniques adopted during the planning stage of buildings.

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