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Disaster Resilient Buildings in Urban Regeneration

For a successful approach to create safe structures resilient to disasters
in urban regeneration projects, it is necessary to adopt a multi-stakeholder
process. This process involves the participation of local governments, non-
governmental organizations, academics, engineers, the public and other
interested parties. The multi-stakeholder approach will help to achieve better
results by encouraging effective cooperation and information sharing in the
disaster risk analysis, planning, design and implementation phases.
In order to build disaster-resilient structures in urban regeneration projects,
academics, bureaucrats and politicians should focus on updating building
standards and guidelines. These updates will ensure that the security
requirements are in line with current best practices. When establishing current
standards and regulations, the lessons learned from the recent disasters,
structural strengthening, material use, earthquake resilience, resistance to
flood, fire and other disaster risks should be taken into account.
It is expected that future urban regeneration projects will concentrate
more on disaster-resilient structures. These projects should aim to build more
durable and ductile structures, bearing in mind the effects of factors such as
climate change. The future directions will be also expected to include the
approaches such as innovative technologies and new materials, advances in
risk analysis and modeling methods, collaborative planning and community
participation.

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