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Download or read book A Benefit Cost Model for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of School Buildings K 12 Providing Protection to People and Buildings written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Benefit Cost Model for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Risk Management Series Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Hotel and Motel Buildings written by Federal Emergency Agency and published by FEMA. This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes are a serious threat to safety in hotel and motel buildings and pose a significant potential liability to owners and operators. Hotel and motel buildings in 39 states are vulnerable to earthquake damage. Unsafe existing buildings expose hotel and motel building owners, operators, and guests to the following risks: Death and injury to guests, visitors, and staff; Damage to or collapse of buildings; Damage to and loss of furnishings, equipment, and other building contents; and Disruption of hospitality functions and building operations. The greatest earthquake risk is associated with existing hotel and motel buildings that were designed and constructed before the use of modern building codes. For many parts of the United States, this includes buildings built as recently as the early 1990s. Although vulnerable hotel and motel buildings should be replaced with safe, new construction or rehabilitated to correct deficiencies, for many building owners, new construction is limited, at times severely, by budgetary constraints, and seismic rehabilitation is expensive and disruptive. However, incremental seismic rehabilitation, an innovative approach that phases in a series of discrete rehabilitation actions over a period of several years, is an effective, affordable, and non-disruptive strategy for responsible mitigation action that can be integrated efficiently into ongoing facility maintenance and capital improvement operations to minimize cost and disruption. This manual and its companion documents are the products of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) project to develop the concept of incremental seismic rehabilitation-that is, building modifications that reduce seismic risk by improving seismic performance and that are implemented over an extended period, often in conjunction with other repair, maintenance, or capital improvement activities. It provides operators of hotels and motels and their owners, be they Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), pension funds, partnerships, individuals, or other forms of ownership, with the information necessary to assess the seismic vulnerability of their buildings and to implement a program of incremental seismic rehabilitation for those buildings.

Download or read book Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings written by Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this document, FEMA 356 Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, incorporates a word that not all users may be familiar with. That word—prestandard—has a special meaning within the ASCE Standards Program in that it signifies the document has been accepted for use as the start of the formal standard development process, however, the document has yet to be fully processed as a voluntary consensus standard. The preparation of this prestandard was originally undertaken with two principal and complementary objectives. The first was to encourage the wider application of the NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, FEMA 273, by converting it into mandatory language. Design professionals and building officials thus would have at their disposal a more specific reference document for making buildings more resistant to earthquakes. This volume fully meets this first objective. The second objective was to provide a basis for a nationally recognized, ANSI-approved standard that would further help in disseminating and incorporating the approaches and technology of the prestandard into the mainstream of design and construction practices in the United States. How successfully this volume achieves the second objective will become apparent with the passage of time, as this prestandard goes through the balloting process of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Several additional related efforts were ongoing during the development of this prestandard. A concerted effort was made to gather any new information produced by these endeavors. Topics varied considerably, but typically covered approaches, methodologies, and criteria. Whenever an analysis of the new information disclosed significant advances or improvements in the state-of-the-practice, they were included in this volume. Thus, maintaining FEMA 273 as a living document—a process to which FEMA is strongly committed—is continuing.

Download or read book Risk Management Series Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Office Buildings FEMA 397 December 2003 written by U. s. Department of Homeland Security and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is intended to assist office building owners' personnel responsible for funding and operating existing office buildings across the United States. This publication and its companion documents are the products of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) project to develop the concept of incremental seismic rehabilitation—that is, building modifications that reduce seismic risk by improving seismic performance and that are implemented over an extended period, often in conjunction with other repair, maintenance, or capital improvement activities. The manual was developed after the project team analyzed the management practices of office building owners of varying sizes located in various seismic zones in different parts of the United States. It focuses on the identified concerns and decision making practices of owners and managers of Class A, B, or C buildings, be they REITs, pension funds, partnerships, individuals, or other types of owners. Earthquakes are a serious threat to office safety and pose a significant potential liability to office building owners. Office buildings in 39 states are vulnerable to earthquake damage. Unsafe existing buildings expose office building owners and tenants to the following risks: Death and injury of tenants, occupants, and visitors; Damage to or collapse of buildings; Damage to and loss of furnishings, equipment, and other building contents; Disruption of office functions and building operations. The greatest earthquake risk is associated with existing office buildings that were designed and constructed before the use of modern building codes. For many parts of the United States, this includes buildings built as recently as the early 1990s. Although vulnerable office buildings need to be replaced with safe, new construction or rehabilitated to correct deficiencies, for many building owners new construction is limited, at times severely, by budgetary constraints, and seismic rehabilitation is expensive and disruptive. However, incremental seismic rehabilitation, an innovative approach that phases in a series of discrete rehabilitation actions over a period of several years, is an effective, affordable, and non-disruptive strategy for responsible mitigation action. It can be integrated efficiently into ongoing facility maintenance and capital improvement operations to minimize cost and disruption. The strategy of incremental seismic rehabilitation makes it possible to get started now on improving earthquake safety in your office building inventory. This manual provides owners of office buildings, be they Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), pension funds, partnerships, individuals, or other forms of ownership, with the information necessary to assess the seismic vulnerability of their buildings and to implement a program of incremental seismic rehabilitation for those buildings.

Download or read book Second Edition Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Exhisting Buildings Volume 1 Summary written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financial Incentives for Seismic Rehabilitation of Hazardous Buildings an Agenda for Action written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes in detail the existing and potential regulatory and financial mechanisms and incentives in the various levels of government that can reasonably be used in a course of action to lessen the risks posed by existing buildings in an earthquake.

Download or read book NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Planning for Seismic Rehabilitation written by Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) initiated a comprehensive, and closely coordinated program to develop a body of knowledge in support of building practices that would increase the ability of existing buildings to withstand the forces of earthquakes. Societal issues inherent in seismic rehabilitation processes also have received attention. At a cumulative cost of about $26million, this FEMA effort has generated two dozen publications and a number of software programs and audio-visual training materials for use by design professionals, building regulatory personnel, educators, researchers, and the general public. The program has proceeded along separate but parallel approaches in dealing with both private sector and federal buildings. Already available from FEMA to private sector practitioners and other interested parties is a "technical platform" of consensus criteria on how to deal with some of the major engineering aspects of the seismic rehabilitation of buildings. This technical material comprises a trilogy with supporting documentation: a method for the rapid identification of buildings that might be hazardous in an earthquake and which can be conducted without gaining access to the buildings themselves; a methodology for a more detailed evaluation of a building that identifies structural flaws that have caused collapse in past earthquakes and might do so again in future earthquakes, and a compendium of the most commonly used techniques of seismic rehabilitation. Along with this volume, the culminating activity in the field of seismic rehabilitation is the completion of a comprehensive set of nationally applicable guidelines with commentary on how to rehabilitate buildings so that they will better withstand earthquakes. Known as the AEJRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (FEMA 273) and the Commentary on the Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (FEMA 274), these volumes, the results of a multiyear, multimillion dollar effort, represent a first of its kind in the United States. The Guidelines allow practitioners to choose design approaches consistent with different levels of seismic safety as required by geographic location, performance objective, type of building, use or occupancy, or other relevant considerations. The Guidelines documents also include analytical techniques that will assist in generating reliable estimates of the expected earthquake performance of rehabilitated buildings. This extensive platform of materials fills a significant gap in that portion of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) focusing on the seismic safety of existing buildings. It is expected that, with time, the Guidelines will be referenced or adapted by standards-setting groups and model building code organizations and will thereby diffuse widely into building practices across the United States. This volume complements the technical materials principally oriented to design professionals in the Guidelines documents. Because of the complexities and possible disruption caused by seismic rehabilitation projects, this volume's title, Planning for Seismic Rehabilitation: Societal Issues, calls attention to two important themes: that careful planning can minimize possibly difficult societal problems and that there exists a wide range of societal issues that maybe more significant in rehabilitation projects than in new construction. In many ways, this publication is intended to provide a "heads up" to those who are considering individual or multiple building, construction class or use, or area-focused seismic rehabilitation efforts.

Download or read book Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards A Handbook written by Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by FEMA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings written by U. s. Department of Homeland Security and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A considerable number of buildings in the existing building stock of the United States present a risk of poor performance in earthquakes because there was no seismic design code available or required when they were constructed, because the seismic design code used was immature and had flaws, or because original construction quality or environmental deterioration has compromised the original design. The practice of improving the seismic performance of existing buildings—known variously as seismic rehabilitation, seismic retrofitting, or seismic strengthening—began in the U.S. in California in the 1940s following the Garrison Act in 1939. This Act required seismic evaluations for pre-1933 school buildings. Substandard buildings were required to be retrofit or abandoned by 1975. Many school buildings were improved by strengthening, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the deadline approached. Local efforts to mitigate the risks from unreinforced masonry buildings (URMs) also began in this time period. In 1984, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began its program to encourage the reduction of seismic hazards posed by existing older buildings throughout the country. Recognizing that building rehabilitation design is far more constrained than new building design and that special techniques are needed to insert new lateral elements, tie them to the existing structure, and generally develop complete seismic load paths, a document was published for this purpose in 1992. FEMA 172, NEHRP Handbook of Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (FEMA, 1992b), was intended to identify and describe generally accepted rehabilitation techniques. The art and science of seismic rehabilitation has grown tremendously since that time with federal, state, and local government programs to upgrade public buildings, with local ordinances that mandate rehabilitation of certain building types, and with a growing concern among private owners about the seismic performance of their buildings. In addition, following the demand for better understanding of performance of older buildings and the need for more efficient and less disruptive methods to upgrade, laboratory research on the subject has exploded worldwide, particularly since the nonlinear methods proposed for FEMA 273 became developed. The large volume of rehabilitation work and research now completed has resulted in considerable refinement of early techniques and development of many new techniques, some confined to the research lab and some widely used in industry. Like FEMA 172, this document describes the techniques currently judged to be most commonly used or potentially to be most useful. Furthermore, it has been formatted to take advantage of the ongoing use of typical building types in FEMA documents concerning existing buildings, and to facilitate the addition of techniques in the future. The primary purpose of this document is to provide a selected compilation of seismic rehabilitation techniques that are practical and effective. The descriptions of techniques include detailing and constructability tips that might not be otherwise available to engineering offices or individual structural engineers who have limited experience in seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings. A secondary purpose is to provide guidance on which techniques are commonly used to mitigate specific seismic deficiencies in various model building types. The goals of the document are to: Describe rehabilitation techniques commonly used for various model building types, Incorporate relevant research results, Discuss associated details and construction issues, Provide suggestions to engineers on the use of new products and techniques.

Download or read book Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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