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		<title>Report # 108 : Half-timbered house in the &#8220;border triangle&#8221; (Fachwerkhaus im Dreiländereck)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria D. Bostenaru This type of construction can be found in both the urban and rural areas of Germany, Switzerland, northern France, and England. The main load-bearing structure is timber frame. Brick masonry, adobe, or wooden planks are used as infill materials depending on the region. This report deals with the two latter types, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 64 : Reinforced concrete frame building with masonry infills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Asia & Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RC Moment Frame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reinforced Concrete]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Polat Gulkan, Mark Aschheim, Robin Spence Approximately 80 percent of Turkey&#8217;s urban households live in mid-rise apartment blocks constructed of cast-in-situ, reinforced concrete with masonry infill. The vertical structure consists of columns 200-300 mm in thickness, longer in one direction than in the other, and designed to fit within the walls. Floor and roof [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 89 : Traditional adobe house without seismic features</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adobe / Earthen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Virginia I. Rodriguez, Maria I. Yacante, Sergio Reiloba This construction type is used as a single-family house. It is a single-story, detached building, found in the rural and suburban areas of the province of San Juan. This traditional type of construction is built with adobe walls and no cornice. The traditional adobe house has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 101 : Tunnel form building</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Asia & Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RC Structural Wall]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.world-housing.net/?p=1383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ahmet Yakut, Polat Gulkan This type of rapidly constructed, multi-unit residential form has been used in Turkey since the late 1970s and early 1980s. It has demonstrated superior earthquake resistance and has also been increasingly utilized as permanent housing in post-earthquake reconstruction programs. Initially, the tunnel form building was targeted for multi-unit residential construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 104 : Adobe House</title>
		<link>http://world-housing.net/whereport1view.php?id=100130</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adobe / Earthen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.world-housing.net/?p=1380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mehrdad Mehrain, Farzad Naeim This building type is typically one or two stories and used for single-family housing. It is more predominant in the desert, in cold-weather, or other inhospitable climates. It has a large mass and basically no strength, particularly against out-of-plane wall forces. These buildings are the most seismically vulnerable. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 114 : Stonework building with wooden timber roof</title>
		<link>http://www.world-housing.net/asia/report-114-stonework-building-with-wooden-timber-roof</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Asia & Mideast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Masonry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Masoud N. Ahari, Alireza Azarbakht Stonework buildings are a common type of rural construction in many parts of Iran (Figure 32). It is widely used in the mountainous areas because of the ease of attaining the building material. More than 71,000 stonework buildings were built in 1968-1972 in comparison to 54,000 brick masonry buildings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 118 : Earring system (Shekanj) in dome-roof structures with unreinforced brick and adobe materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nima T. Bekloo This building structure derives its name from the four earrings that are constructed at the four corners of a rectangular building at the spring level of dome roof. This structural system was developed due to the lack of of wood and stone. It was widely constructed more than 3 thousand years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 117 : Four arches (Char taaqi) with dome-roof structures, and unreinforced brick and adobe materials.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nima T. Bekloo The &#8216;Four arches&#8217; or Char Taaqi (in Persian) derives its name from the four arches that connects tops of four timber or masonry piers enclosing the space. It is an equilateral architectural unit consisting of four arches or short Barrel vaults between four corner piers, with a dome over the central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 42 : Houses with mud walls and thatch roofs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adobe / Earthen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.world-housing.net/?p=1367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Svetlana Uranova, Ulugbek T. Begaliev This building type is widespread in the rural areas of Kyrgyzstan, and also in some urban areas. It is a non-engineered construction. Due to its low cost, it is mainly used by poor people. Various building materials are used for this type of construction, e.g., clay and straw for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report # 160 : Combined and Confined Masonry Construction</title>
		<link>http://www.world-housing.net/whereport1view.php?id=100185</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Confined Masonry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arturo Tena-Colunga, Artemio JuÃ¡rez-Ãngeles, Victor Hugo Salinas-Vallejo It is defined as combined and confined masonry structures those where the bearing/seismic walls are made by alternating courses of lightweight concrete blocks (inexpensive in Mexico) with courses of fired clay bricks (more expensive) and they are confined with cast-in place reinforced-concrete tie-beams and tie-columns (Figure 1). [...]]]></description>
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