Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings


Book Description

Provides the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Mitigation Directorate with 25 recommended tasks that should be undertaken through the agency's Existing Buildings Program (EBP) in the coming years. The EBP's expanded but continuing mission in seismic rehabilitation is to limit fatalities, life-threatening injuries, & property & economic losses from earthquakes by increasing the number of seismically resistant buildings in all areas of identified earthquake risk. Identifies 4 objectives & 25 tasks to help make our building stock less vulnerable to earthquake damage. Seeks to provide the continuity necessary for an effective Existing Buildings Program.










Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings


Book Description

Provides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of different seismicity throughout the U.S.







Reducing Earthquake Hazards in the Central U. S. (6 Reports Combined)


Book Description

Six reports prepared for the U.S. Geological Survey by the Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The six reports are combined in this one report are entitled: Local Earthquake Hazard Reduction Plans; Education of Architects and Engineers; Seismic Hazard Mapping; State Seismic Safety Advisory Committees; Historic Resources; and Nonstructural Hazards.