Nearly a year after the disaster, Nepalese authorities have yet to announce new building codes.
“I haven’t seen any significant initiative or change that would help the next time,” said Mattias Bryneson of the Plan International aid agency. The government has said more than 8,000 schools were damaged or destroyed in last year’s quake. Still, “similar types of schools are still standing in other parts of Nepal”, Mr Bryneson said. If a quake hit tomorrow and affected those areas, those schools could also collapse.