Vice Minister for Education of Thailand, Dr. Kitti Limskul delivering the opening remarks |
Director-General of Japan
Foundation, Mr. Kazuhiro Fukuda delivering the opening address.
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The
event was graced by the Vice Minister of Education of Thailand, with members of
the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization. Several professionals coming from different fields of expertise
from 17 countries were also present.
Among the presentors were two members of the Civil
Engineering Department of De La Salle University. Dr. Lessandro Garciano, Associate Professor, presented the “Seismic
Risk Assessment of Heritage Structure Using Fragility and Net Present Value
Approach.” This paper was co-authored with MSCE student Michael Baylon. The presentation highlighted the post-scenario at the Bohol earthquake (2013) and the utilization of fragility
curves to assess the risk for buildings. Dr. Garciano discussed the overview of
the methodology and also integrated into the study a economic approach to check
the feasibility of the proposed method.
Kirk Yu, BSMS CE Student |
On the other hand, Mr. Kirk Kennedy Yu,
BSMS CE student, presented the paper co-authored with Dr. Andres Oreta (DLSU), Noel Hechanova (CENRO) and Dr. Rhodella Ibabao (UPV) entitled “Supporting Local Initiatives in Preserving
Heritage Buildings in Iloilo City (Philippines )
through Risk Assessment.” The presentation elaborated on the legislative and
actual efforts of the city government in preserving heritage buildings. It also
discussed the vulnerable condition of the heritage buildings and the proposed
implementation of a Rapid Visual Screening method to assess various risks and
hazards.
In total, the conference ended with the main
statement that cultural heritage and disaster risk reduction must be integrated
into each other. The conference also became a platform for the call for inputs
into the post-2015 Framework for DRR, also known as the Hyogo Framework 2.
- written by Kirk Yu
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