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VALUE STUDY IDEAS GENERATED DESCRIPTION
AND SUGGESTED USE
ACTIVITY: SEISMIC SAFETY ALTERNATIVES
VALUE STUDY ELEMENTS CONSIDERED AS POTENTIAL PROPOSALS
IDEA
DESCRIPTION AND SUGGESTED USE
20
Use the ICSSC guidelines as
much as possible.
An abundance of high-quality work has been done by FEMA and
others to produce guidance for agency use in determining the
seismic risk. Use of the ICSSC guidelines, with some
customization for bureau specific issues, appears to be a least
cost method to follow.
Create customization of risk
categories to meet mission specific
issues and use existing information
without adding more new data as
much as possible.
Mission related issues to customize risk classification identified
were:
Number of staff affected by event both within structure and
outside structure.
Number of persons with life-safety affected.
Bureau understanding if building type behavior.
Mission specific proximity to other exceptionally
high-risk structures.
Condition of the people in the building due to age
(young/old), mental/physical impairment, or other issues; and
their number.
Probability of the earthquake occurrence.
Weighting based upon the essential building types. Examples
are:
-Dorms with sub-typing for fire fighter or other rescue
occupancy which would be needed to assist others
(including their equipment).
-Fire and police facilities.
-Communication centers.
-Hazardous materials storage sites.
-Jails and correction facilities.
-Hospitals and medical clinics.
-Daycare.
-Multiple housing (apartment complex).
-Ability to replace mission related contents (historic or
ability to perform bureau specific mission).
Geologic issues specific to site such as very soft soils,
locations (top of hill), fill zones, old excavations, and fault lines.
ACTIVITY FUNCTION: DETERMINE OPTIONS
Create a standard rehabilitation
cost for a given building type.
Some information already exists to generate an expected
rehabilitation costs for a given type of building. As work
progresses, additional standardization related to Interior could
be developed and used to reduce the amount and cost of
detailed estimating required.
Generate standards to use in
options to demolish and/or relocate
from an identified unsafe building.
In place of rehabilitation, it may be more cost effective to
demolish or abandon the building for use by people. Standards
should include the potentially high cost to evaluate within the
alternative. Build or lease, as appropriate, should be
considered.