| Summary: | The purpose of this project was to develop a prototype of a decision support framework
that could be used by institutions to assist with formulating and prioritizing options to
increase the resilience of their infrastructure. As a prototype, the results of this project are
intended to demonstrate how the framework could be structured and to provide a basis for
judging the utility of this approach. Seismic mitigation of hospitals was used as a test case
for the method, because of existing domain knowledge within the committee. The method
could also be applied to other facilities and for other types of extreme events.
This project focused on the non-structural (technical) components of buildings. Historically
most efforts to improve the seismic performance of buildings have focused on the structural
system; however, risk to safety, damage to property and loss of function of buildings can
often result from the failure or malfunction of non-structural assets, even if the building
structure performs well.
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