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Traditional building designs to reduce lightning risks

Location

Place : Uganda
 
Country : Uganda
 
Region : Sub Saharan Afica
 
 
 

Hazard

Primary : Lightning

Typology of Heritage

Vernacular Heritage

Aspect of Disaster Management

Mitigation

Summary

Building resilient shelters and structures that can protect from or divert lightning strikes, such as huts, caves, tents, or lightning rods. For example, some African communities build huts with thatched roofs and mud walls that can absorb the electric charge and prevent fires, or they use metal poles or wires to attract and conduct the lightning away from their homes

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