Promoting Safer Buildings Conference on 13th July at Royal Geographical Society, London
22 June 2017
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On the 13th July we will be holding our Promoting Safer Building Conference in London to mark the end of this pilot project.
In this full day event we will be presenting our field work to learn from post-typhoon interventions in the Philippines and post-earthquake interventions in Nepal. We will also be hosting guest international speakers from the three interacting disciplines, Engineering, Geo-Science and Humanitarian Shelter, to engage in an exchange about the objectives, findings and future possibilities of this project:
- Dr Ramesh Guragain, Deputy Executive Director, National Society for Earthquake Technology, Nepal.
- Dr Cees Van Westen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
- Ela Serdaroglu, Shelter Lead, Global Shelter Cluster Co-Lead, International Federation of the Red Cross, Switzerland.
To register your interest in attending, please email a.albuerne@ucl.ac.uk.
www.promotingsaferbuilding.org