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- Title
- Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings. Second Edition. Volume 1. Summary. Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 39.
- File
- PB2007111284.pdf
- Source
- December 1994, 80 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- FEMA-156
- Abstract
- The first attempt at gathering a comprehensive set of costs for the seismic rehabilitation of buildings was completed in 1988 (Typical Costs of Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings, Volume I: Summary, and its companion Volume 2: Supporting Documentation, FEMA 156 and 157, respectively). Although these volumes were based on a relatively small sample and employed a simplified analytical methodology, they nonetheless served the twin objectives of focusing the attention of decision makers and providing useful, general guidance on this very significant topic. In the intervening six years, the tempo of improving the seismic safety of buildings in both the private and public sectors has accelerated. Further, such activities have spread from the region west of the Rocky Mountains to other parts of the country and more cost data on this subject has become available. Increasing the availability of this new data for use in seismic motive behind the preparation of arehabilitation initiatives is the principle Second Edition of Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings. of a summary and a supporting The Second Edition, which also consists documentation volume reflects: A clear definition of 'costs'; A rigorous data collection procedure; A written data collection protocol; Intensive follow-up efforts to verify the data; A stringent quality control process, including a quality rating for each data point.
- Keywords
- Existing buildings; Seismic safety; Costs; Data collection; Cost considerations; Buildings; Database characteristics; Performance categories; Seismic rehabilitation; Building types; Quality control; Cost database; Typical costs