Awasuka
HISTORY BOOKS
- Colonel Kirkpatrick, A Account Of The Kingdom Of Nepaul, A Mission to that Country in the Year 1793, Published in 1811
- Francis Hamilton Buhanan, An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House Of Gorkha, Edingurgh 1819
- Daniel Wright, History of Nepal, 1993 (First Edition: 1877)
- Kurt Meyer & Pamela Deulel Meyer, In The Shadow Of The Himalayas: A Photographic Record by John Claude White (1883-1908), Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad, India, 2005
- William Brook Northley, The Land Of The Gurkhas – Or, The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, 1998 (First Edition: 1937)
- James F. Fisher, Tanka Prasad Acharya, Rewanta Kumari Archaya, Living Martyrs: Individuals and Revolution in Nepal, Oxford University Press, 1997
- Charles Granville Bruce, Twenty Years in the Himalaya (1910), Published in 1910.
- Daniel W Edwards, Nepal in Color, 1966-1975 – Peace Corp Days, the Kathmandu Valley, Published in 2017
- Subodh Rana, HistoryLessonsNepal.blogspot.com, Several Articles on Nepal History
MUD & STONE MASONRY
- Basin, Clay as a Binder, Practical Action Technical Brief
- Basin, Mud as a Mortar, Practical Action Technical Brief
- Basin, Mud Plasters and Renders, Practical Action Technical Brief
- S Rashmi, KS Jagadish, S Nethravathi, Stabilized Mud Mortar, IJRET 2014
- BIS, Preparation and Use of Mud Mortar in Masonry – Guide, Swatantra Bharat Press, 1991
- CRS, Mud Mortar Improvement Through the Addition of Fibres, Oxford Brookes University
- Sencico, Nuevas Casas Resistentes de Adobe, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Peru, USAID Peru, Sencico
- Gernot Minke, Manual de Construcción para Viviendas Antisísmicas De Tierra, Kassel University, 2001
- Gernot Minke, Manual de Construcción en Tierra, Editorial Fin de Siglo 1994, Germany
- Nicholas Edwards Kennedy, Seismic Design Manual for Interlocking Compressed Earth Blocks, May 2013
- Julio Vargas Neumann, Carlos Iwaki, Álvaro Rubiños, Sismo Resistencia en las Entrañas de Caral, Pontificia Universidad de Perú, 2017
- Buildchange, Nepal Housing Reconstruction Programme: Technical Detail Progressive Expansion Provision for Stone Masonry in Cement Mortar, Mercy Corps & Buildchange 2015
- Jitendra Bothara, Svetlana Brzev, A Tutorial: Improving the Seismic Performance of Stone Masonry Buildings, EERI Earthquake Engineering Research Institute USA 2011
- Miquel Ferreira Mendes, Julien Hosta, Olivier Le Gall, Technical guide for master trainers: Earthquake Resistant buildings using local materials in Dolakha, Ramechhap and Sindhuli – Nepal, CRAterre Grenoble, 2015
- www.themudhome.com, The Mud
HISTORY ARTICLES
- Shashwat Pant, How a 19th Century Prussian Prince ‘instagrammed’ Kathmandu, Online Khabar (English Edition), January 2018
POST-DISASTER REPORTS
- Buildchange, Post-Disaster Reconnaissance Report, Buildchange 2015
- Buildchange, Housing Subsector Report Mercy Corps Intervention Areas 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, Buildchange 2015
- Martin Hammer, Catherine Wanek, Nepal Post-Earthquake Field Report, Builders Without Borders 2015
HOUSING COOPERATIVES
- Lillemor Andersson-Brolin, Mauricio Silva, Programa de Vivienda Social de FUPROVI, Costa Rica, Sweden 1997
- Agneta Gunnarsson, Home Sweet Home, Stockholm 2005
SEISMIC RETROFITTING
- National Reconstruction Authority, Govt. Of Nepal, Correction / Exception Manual for Masonry Structure, May 2017
- UNESCO New Dehli Office &UNDP India, Manual for Restoration and Retrofitting of Rural Structures in Kashmir, 2007
- www.archidev.org, Bamboo Mesh, Nepal 2015
- NSET – Nepal Housing, Mesh over Mud brick wall retrofit strategy for Nepal, May 2015
- Randolph Langenbach, Armature Crosswall Project, Turkey 2011
- USAID, Seismic Retrofit of Housing in Post-Disaster Situations – Basic Engineering Principles for Development Professionals: A Primer, USAID 2014
- Hima Shrestha, Retrofitting of Common Frame Structural (Pillar System) Houses, NSET National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal 2003-6
- Kirti Tiwari, Hima Shrestha, Ramesh Guragain, Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Retrofit Design of Heritage Buildings of Kathmandu Valley, NSET National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal 2015
BAMBOO & STRAW
- Oliver Frith, Nripal Adhikary, Sonam Peldon, Bamboo Construction in Bhutan: a feasibility and market study, INBAR 1997
- Jules J.A. Janssen, Designing and Building with Bamboo, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Nederlands 2000
- R. Gnanaharan, A.P. Mosteiro, Local Tools and Equipment Technologies for Processing Bamboo & Rattan, INBAR 1997
- Linda Garland, Vertical Soak Diffusion for Bamboo Preservation, Enviromental Bamboo Foundation 2003
- GTZ, Guia para Autoconstrucción utilizando la guadua como elemento principal, Cooperacion Colombo-Alemana GTZ
- Angel Guevara R, La Casa De Quincha Mejorada, Predes 1993
- Martin Hammer, Andy Mueller, Kevin Donahue, Anthony Dente, Report for Submittal of 1-1/2 Story Straw Bale House Design, Builders Without Borders 2015
LATRINES
- José Luis Amado, Gabriela Esparza, Construccion del Nucleo Sanitario Bason, Sencico 1998
- Rolando Salgado, La letrina es más que una simple construcción, Predes 1991
- Johan van Lengen, Manual del Arquitecto Descalzo, Efedoso 1997
GOVERNMENT CODES
- IS, Indian Standard Codes: IS.875.1.1987, IS.875.2.1987, IS.875.3.1987, IS.875.4.1987, IS.875.5.1987, IS456,2000 (reaffirmed 2005), IS1893-2002
- MINVAH, Reglamento Nacional de Construcción, Nicaragua 1983
- MOPC, Reglamento para el Análisis y Diseño Sísmico de Estructuras, Republica Dominicana 2011
- DUDBC, Nepal National Building Code: NBC000, NBC101, NBC102, NBC103, NBC104, NBC105, NBC106, NBC107, NBC108, NBC109, NBC110, NBC111, NBC112, NBC113, NBC114, NBC201, NBC202, NBC203, NBC204, NBC205, NBC206, NBC207, NBC208
GENERAL SEISMIC RECOMENDATIONS
- DUDBC, Design Catalogue for Reconstruction of Earthquake Resistant Houses. Volume I, Government of Nepal 2015
- DUDBC, Design Catalogue for Reconstruction of Earthquake Resistant Houses. Volume II, Government of Nepal 2015
- Buildchange, Recommendations for Homeowners: Demolition, Material Salvaging, Material Reuse and Storage, Mercy Corps & Buildchange 2015
- ERRA, Follow 10 Recommendations For Single Storey Masonry Houses in Cement Sand Mortar, Earthquake Reconstruction And Rehabilitation Authority, Pakistan 2006
- CAR-ESI, Seismic Safety for Adobe Homes, what everyone should know, Centra Asia Region Earthquake Safety Iniciative, GeoHazards International 2005
- Binod Shrestha, What are the tricks for constructing earthquake-resistant buildings?, NSET National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal 2003-6
- Julio Kuirowa, Reducción de Desastres: viviendo en harmonía con la naturaleza, Japan and Peru Center for Earthquake Enginnering Research and Disaster Management, Lima Peru 2002
- Thierry Winter & Others, Manual For Post-Earthquake Rebuilding in Nepalese Valleys, AFPS Association Française du Gene Parasismique (French Association for Earthquake Engineering) 2015
SELF-CONSTRUCTION
- Alejandro Aravena / Andrés Iacobelli, Elemental – Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual, Hatje Cantz 2006
- Teto-Techo, Manual de Construçao, Versao 2013 (Brasil)
- Francisco Beltran Rapalino, Así Construyo Mi Vivienda, Universidad La Gran Colombia
- Pedro Lorenzo Gálligo, Master de Desarrollo Urbano y Territorial: Producción Social del Habitat, Ponencias MDUT 2017
- Pedro Lorenzo Gálligo, Un Techo Para Vivir. Tecnologías para viviendas de Producción Social en América Latina, Edicions UPC Centre de Cooperació al Desenvolupament, CCD 2005
- Edgar Peña, Mi casa 10. Sistema de Adobe Sismoresistente, Taishin El Salvador
- Alba Alfaro, Manual popular para la construcción de vivienda con bloque de panel, Taishin El Salvador
- Sencico, Cartilla de Autoconstrucción: Ladrillo, Sencico & MTC 2000
- Bhuvaneswar Lal Shrestha, Low Cost Housing for Practicing Engineers and Architects, Kathmandu, Shelter and Local Technology Development Centre 2007 – DUDBC
- Om Prakash Giri, A Textbook of Building Technology, Several Universities, Nepal
CONFINED MASONRY
- Sevtlana Brzev, Earthquake-Resistant Confine Masonry Construction, NICEE Canada-India, 2007
- Tom Schacher, Confined Masonry, an illustrated guide for masons, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC 2007
- Kamu Iyer, Shibani M. Kulkami, Shantanu Subramaniam, C.V.R. Murtry, Rupen Goswami, A.R. Vijayanarayan, Build a Safe House with Confined Masonry, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, GSDMA,
- Sorina Constantinescu, Study of Confined Masonry Buildings in Seismic Areas, EENVIRO Bucharest Romania, 2016
- Guy Nordenson and Associates, Design and Construction Guidelines for Confined Masonry Housing, Haiti, Buildchange 2011
- Ajay Chourasia, Design Guidelines for Confined Masonry Buildings, CSIR India 2017
- Svetlana Brzev, Confined Masonry for Residential Construction, Indian Institute of Technology Ganhinagar, 2015
- Elisabeth Hausler, Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction Guideline, Single Story Confined Masonry, Buildchange 2006
- Buildchange team, Challenges and Opportunities in the Production and Purchase of Good Quality Blocks, Buildchange, SDC, Save The Children & Blue Dawn Foundation, 2012
- Buildchange, Nepal Housing Reconstruction Programme: Model Hollow Concrete Block Building Design, Mercy Corps & Buildchange, 2016
- Roberto Merlos, Nicolás Guevara, Manual de buenas prácticas para la construcción de una vivienda de bloque de concreto, Taishin El Salvador
- Patricia de Hasbun, Manual Popular. Construcción de una Vivienda con Mamposteria de ladrillo de suelo de cemento confinado, Taishin El Salvador
- Angelica Maria Herrera, German Guillermo Madrid, Bloques de Concreto, Fabricación y Construcción, Sencico
- Eddy Bravo Trejos, Alvaro Poveda Vargas, Diana Ubico Duran, Manual de Construcción con Bloques de Concreto, ICCYC Costa Rica, 2007
- Blanca Helena Zapata, Clara Beatriz Villegas, Manual de construccion de Vivienda Popular, ICPC Colombia 1993
- Roberto Merlos, Nicolás Guevara, Manual de buenas prácticas para la construcción de una vivienda con Bloque de Concreto, Taishin El Salvador
- Patricia de Hasbun, Construcción de una Vivienda con Mamposteria de Ladrillo de Suelo Cemento Confinado, Taishin El Salvador
- Omar Dario Cardona Arboleda, Manual de Construcción, Evaluación y Rehabilitación Sismo-Resistente de Viviendas de Mamposteria, AIS & Fondo para la Reconstrucción y Desarrollo Social del Eje Cafetero – FOREC
- www.smartshelterfoundation.org, Confined Masonry
VIDEOS on HOUSING COOPERATIVES
- caballeroyocio: Porqué organizar una Cooperativa (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEBcd1oV1c
- FUCAC: Animación: Qué son las cooperativas? (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UMJ6U-U28
- Generation Y: Cooperativas, una alternativa para la nueva economia social (SPA & ENG) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgcsHrjODU
- Canal MVOTMA Mvotma: Documental COOPERATIVAS de VIVIENDA (primer corte de edición) (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHmyrfMWEm4
- INAES visual: Cooperativas de Vivienda – Fecovim (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2vzlZc9To
- Cooperativas de las Américas: Cooperativas de Vivienda por Ayuda Mutua para la Reconstrucción Post-Desastres Naturales, HAITI. (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYO_6J4dtc
- Cooperativas de las Américas: First Mutual Aid Housing Cooperative in Haiti (Post Earthquake Reconstruction) (ENG) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isw5GjnpsWw
- We Effect América Latina: El Modelo Financiero de las Cooperativas de Vivienda (ENG Subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdifMw2MxBk
- FUCVAM Uruguay: Primer Sorteo del año de Cooperativas de Vivienda – 2014 (SPA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUoJXQmpp8
- MONDRAGON COOPERATIVES: The largest cooperative company in the world: Basque Country (ENG) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bcNfbGxAdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbukSeZ29o