Fung, J.
, Butry, D.
, Sattar, S.
and McCabe, S.
(2018),
Cost Estimates for the Seismic Retrofit of Federally Owned and Leased Buildings, Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=924676
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Cost Estimates for the Seismic Retrofit of Federally Owned and Leased Buildings
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Presidential Executive Order 13717, Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard, encourages federal agencies to enhance resilience [to] future earthquakes by evaluating and retrofitting existing federal buildings based on current existing building codes. We develop a methodology for predicting seismic retrofit costs based on observable building characteristics and the desired performance standard. Our approach is to train a series of regression models on a database collected for FEMA 156, Typical Costs for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings. The models vary in the level of data required; e.g., a decision-maker may not have information on building construction type. We use prediction error to quantify the effect of data availability on estimates.Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering
Conference Dates
June 25-29, 2018
Conference Location
Los Angeles, CA
Conference Title
Eleventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Conferences
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Created June 25, 2018, Updated August 13, 2018