Tag kathmandu

2 Oct

Gaddi Baithak wins ENR’s “Project of the Year”

Nepal’s devastating April 2015 earthquake and its many aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes.

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30 Nov

Recent Success: SESH Students in Nepal

A group of 15 students from Structural Engineering Students for Humanity (SESH) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo traveled to Kathmandu in Nepal in 2018 to help Miyamoto Relief with plans to repair and strengthen a school badly damaged in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. It is the fifth year SESH has volunteered alongside Miyamoto Relief, making […]

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29 Nov

Recent Success: Seismic Restoration and Repair of Gaddi Baithak

The Story of the Gaddi Baithak and this Project After the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Kathmandu in 2015, the United States Embassy in Nepal founded the Gaddi Baithak Restoration Project to make a case for the palace to be repaired and restored instead of abandoning it for eventual demolition. About one-third of Nepal’s […]

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