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Safe Enough? a Building Code to Protect Our Cities and Our Lives

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Medium: journal article
Language(s): English
Published in: Earthquake Spectra, , n. 2, v. 32
Page(s): 677-695
DOI: 10.1193/112213eqs286m
Abstract:

Seminal works on earthquake engineering hold that greater seismic resistance of building stock is impractical; that the public is unwilling to pay for it; that the public has no proper role in setting code philosophy; and that current seismic provisions encode the proper performance goals. Recent projects undermine these conventionalities. In light of performance expectations for new buildings, the code seems to almost guarantee that a future large but not very rare earthquake will damage enough buildings to displace millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses from a major metropolitan area, producing a catastrophe more severe than Hurricane Katrina. A discussion with the public should take place in which we reconsider how to measure risk and how to balance risk and construction cost in code objectives.

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    18/06/2022
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