Confined Masonry Workshop Handbook: The Construction and Maintenance of Masonry Buildings in Haiti (3rd edition)

The handbook was edited by Craig Totten with AIDG, Architects Without Borders - Oregon and HaitiRewired after the January 2010 earthquake, and it replaces a seminar handout revised on April 12, 2010. It adapts part of the manual Construction and Maintenance of Masonry Houses, edited by Marcial Blondet, to concrete block construction. Chapters cover the foundation, block walls, columns, the connection of the second floor and roof, and the calculation of the wall area needed for an earthquake-safe house. The text gives minimum footing widths by soil type and minimum wall densities by soil class for houses of up to two stories. It is distributed under an open copyright policy that allows translation and adaptation if credit and contact details are kept.