In Nepal, it is a great challenge to protect infrastructure and public and individual properties from frequent landslide, flood, and earthquake disasters.
Moreover, who would want to invest in a nation that cannot protect infrastructure?
The report says that such an operation should have included "protecting infrastructure, historic sites, administrative buildings, cultural sites, financial institutions, judicial/legal sites and religious sites".
Mr. Bandelt, 25, is pursuing a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, where he also conducts research on materials that protect infrastructure from natural hazards, as part of a fellowship with the National Science Foundation.
Some staff members stressed the need for further training in modern-day flood management techniques, particularly the junior members who generally bear the responsibility of being the first to protect infrastructure and communities in the event of a flood.
It must adopt a proactive security system that would save citizens' lives, as well as protect infrastructure.
Building walls or piling up riprap protects infrastructure.
Structural engineering methods to protect infrastructure systems from terrorist attacks are required.
But a lot of states and localities have begun to think very, very seriously about how to adapt, how to protect infrastructure, how to protect vulnerable people.
Base isolation has emerged as one of the most effective high-tech strategies for protecting infrastructure under seismic loading.
Flexible catch fences are widely used to protect infrastructure like railways, roads and buildings from rockfall damage.
