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- Title
- Seismic Safety of Federal Buildings. Initial Program: How Much Will It Cost.
- File
- PB95182291.pdf
- Author(s)
- Todd, D. R.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC. Mitigation Directorate., April 1994, 40 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NISTIR-5419
- Abstract
- A proposed Executive order titled 'Seismic Safety of Existing Federally Owned or Leased Buildings' sets forth an initial program aimed at laying the foundation of achieving the long-term goal of seismic safety in all Federal buildings. This paper identifies direct costs associated with adoption of the proposed Executive Order and develops an estimate of those costs. It does not consider the value of the benefits associated with adopting the proposed order. The estimated costs represent the aggregate impact on the Federal budget. Note that the estimate of that is presented in this paper does not include the costs of continuing already-existing seismic rehabilitation programs, but considers only costs that would be newly imposed on the Federal budget.
- Keywords
- Seismic safety; Seismic design; Earthquake resistant structures; Cost analysis; Retrofitting; Cost estimates; Structural design; Design standards; Earthquake engineering; Federal buildings; Reinforcement (Structures); Design criteria; Building codes