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- Title
- How-To Suggestions for Implementing Executive Order 12941 on Seismic Safety of Existing Federal Buildings, A Handbook.
- File
- PB96131552.pdf
- Author(s)
- Bieniawski, A.; Todd, D.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC. Office of Mitigation and Research., November 1995, 214 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NISTIR-5770
- Abstract
- This document supplements 'ICSSC guidance on Implementing Executive Order 12941 on Seismic Safety of Existing Federally Owned or Leased Buildings' (RP5). This Handbook offers two additional levels of guidance beyound that presented in RP5: (1) detailed methodologies for fulfilling the RP5 recommendations for inventorying and cost estimating, which can be followed as default procedures by agencies which do not have agency-specific programs in place and which do not wish to develop agency-specific programs, and (2) detailed specifications for preparing and submitting the cost estimate and supporting documentation called for in the Executive Order. While the first type of guidance, presented in Sections 1-4 of this Handbook, is optional, the second type, presented in Section 5, is to be considered mandatory in order to ensure uniform reporting.
- Keywords
- ; Cost analysis; Seismic design; Inventories; Earthquake resistance; Retrofitting; Cost estimates; Safety engineering; Structural design; Design standards; Earthquake engineering; Regulatory guides; Federal buildings; Reinforcement (Structures); Building codes