| A two day refreshers workshop of trained
masons on "Earthquake Resistant Construction of Buildings" was
organized on 14 - 15 September 2006, at the conference hall of Lalitpur
Sub-metropolitan City, Pulchowk, Lalitpur. The program was jointly organized
by the Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City (LSMC) and National Society for
Earthquake Technology (NSET) with the support from JICA. Altogether 52
masons of Lalitpur districts who were trained on earthquake resistant
construction technology during past training programs attended the workshop.
It was regarded as follow-up of the past training programs that were jointly
organized by NSET, DUDBC, LSMC and other partnering Institutions. The
objectives of the workshop were to assist the masons in promoting safer
building construction practices, refresh their skill and enhance capacity,
share experiences and challenges faced in the field by them, find out
proper ways to convince the house owners about earthquake safety and make
them clear about the additional cost of construction that could occur
for earthquake resistant building. In a whole the program was able to
refresh the technical and motivation skills of the masons. |