Building a Building in Nepal

It's not like rocket science to earthquake buildings. It doesn't mean that if you have the wildest movement of tectonic plates of course nothing is earthquake proof but it means that you will protect against maybe you know 90% or more of the damage. And one of the things that you need to do is simply make sure that the roof can come loose from the wall. The post will be moving in different directions and the roof will fall down flat on the people inside the building. That's what's dangerous that's what kills people. So it's not that difficult and that's why I'm also saying that it's quite cheap to do.

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