NEHRP Clearinghouse
- Title
- Risk Management Series: Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Hospital Buildings. Providing Protection to People and Buildings.
- File
- PB2005101184.pdf
- Source
- December 2003, 91 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- FEMA-396
- Abstract
- The incremental rehabilitation approach to seismic risk mitigation focuses on improvements that will decrease the vulnerability of hospital buildings to earthquakes at the most appropriate and convenient times in the life cycle of those buildings. The approach clarifies, as specifically as possible, what is the most affordable, least disruptive, and most effective way to reduce seismic risk in your buildings. Prior to initiating a program of incremental seismic rehabilitation, a healthcare organization must first address the following three questions: Are your hospital buildings located in a seismic zone; Are these buildings vulnerable to earthquakes; What can you do to reduce earthquake risk in existing vulnerable buildings. This manual will help you find the right answers.
- Keywords
- ; Structural collapse; Wounds and injuries; Catastrophic conditions; Risk management; Death; Buildings; Impact damage; Hazards; Safety; Hospitals; Rehabilitation; Seismic effects; Earthquakes