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Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has produced a series of documents aimed at specific building occupancies that details a means for incorporating seismic rehabilitation through discreet actions or steps. Termed, Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation, or ISR, this method helps building owners, risk managers, maintenance personnel and design professionals formulate a means to move toward greater seismic safety for buildings. A companion manual titled "Engineering Guideline for Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation, FEMA 420/Decemeber 2008" (as developed under Applied Technology Council project ATC-68) is intended as a technical resource for design professionals who are implementing incremental seismic rehabilitation on their projects or advocating its use. It explains the concept of incremental seismic rehabilitation as a strategy, discusses maintenance, capital improvement and decision-making processes, summarizes available engineering resource documents, and outlines the overall engineering process for incremental seismic rehabilitation of buildings. This paper will discuss the purpose of the FEMA 420 document; it's relationship to the entire FEMA ISR series; and the underlying presumptions. It will discuss the role of the engineer as a consultant on ISR projects and the rehabilitation process.
Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has produced a series of documents aimed at specific building occupancies that details a means for incorporating seismic rehabilitation through discreet actions or steps. Termed, Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation, or ISR, this method helps building owners, risk managers, maintenance personnel and design professionals formulate a means to move toward greater seismic safety for buildings. A companion manual titled "Engineering Guideline for Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation, FEMA 420/Decemeber 2008" (as developed under Applied Technology Council project ATC-68) is intended as a technical resource for design professionals who are implementing incremental seismic rehabilitation on their projects or advocating its use. It explains the concept of incremental seismic rehabilitation as a strategy, discusses maintenance, capital improvement and decision-making processes, summarizes available engineering resource documents, and outlines the overall engineering process for incremental seismic rehabilitation of buildings. This paper will discuss the purpose of the FEMA 420 document; it's relationship to the entire FEMA ISR series; and the underlying presumptions. It will discuss the role of the engineer as a consultant on ISR projects and the rehabilitation process.
Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
Welliver, Barry H. (author)
ATC and SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures ; 2009 ; San Francisco, California, United States
2009-12-07
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009