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Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 23, 2020
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David Butry, Steven L. McCabe
Aging building clusters all around the world, especially in high seismic regions, will require a retrofit approach to improve the resilience of the built environment. One of the main challenges of retrofitting existing buildings is the associated cost

Economic considerations for recovery-based design

September 20, 2020
Author(s)
Juan Fung, Dustin Cook, Yating Zhang, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar
Current building design practice targets life safety performance for the design-level earthquake. While some buildings (e.g., schools, hospitals) may be designed for higher performance, the actual performance of most residential and commercial buildings

A Predictive Modeling Approach to Estimating Seismic Retrofit Costs

February 20, 2020
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David T. Butry, Steven L. McCabe
This paper presents a methodology for estimating seismic retrofit costs from historical data. In particular, historical retrofit cost data from FEMA 156 is used to build a predictive model to estimate retrofit costs as a function of building

Social and Economic Components of Resilient Multi-Hazard Building Design

October 3, 2019
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung, Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Therese McAllister, Steven McCabe
In 2017, U.S. damages from natural hazard events exceeded $300B, suggesting that current targets for building performance do not sufficiently mitigate loss. The significant costs borne by individuals, insurers, and government do not include impacts from

Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
The intent of current building codes for typical commercial and residential buildings is to safeguard against loss of life to building occupants by minimizing the probability of structural collapse during natural hazard events. However, current codes do

Research Needs to Support Immediate Occupancy Building Performance Following Natural Hazard Events

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Therese P. McAllister, Katherine J. Johnson, Christopher T. Clavin, Christopher L. Segura, Steven L. McCabe, Juan F. Fung, Leslie Abrahams, Emily Sylak-Glassman , Marc L. Levitan, Kenneth W. Harrison, John L. Harris
The performance of buildings in our communities depends on multiple factors including the availability of supporting infrastructure, the original design, the current condition and capacity to resist hazard impacts, and the ability to recover functionality

Cost Estimates for the Seismic Retrofit of Federally Owned and Leased Buildings

June 25, 2018
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe
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

Estimating Structural Seismic Retrofit Costs for Federal Buildings

June 14, 2018
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe
In NIST TN 1973 [1], we develop a methodology for estimating seismic retrofit costs. The general approach is to build a predictive model of seismic retrofit costs that (1) captures the essential factors that drive costs, such as building construction type

A Methodology for Estimating Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 28, 2017
Author(s)
Juan Fung, David Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven McCabe
Presidential Executive Order 13717 (EO 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
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