TECHNICAL RESEARCH
EMERGING DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Cost and Benefits of Constructing to Post-Earthquake Operational Standards
Description This study estimates cost implications of select BC Housing buildings to be designed to post-earthquake operational standards as opposed to their current design for life safety/collapse prevention in keeping with BC Building codes. The project examines eight BC Housing buildings as archetypes and reviews their design standards and structural approaches. The key focus of this study is estimating the additional costs required to construct these buildings to ensure that they are designed to be operational post-earthquake. The report findings will help industry prepare for future buildings to be built to a post-earthquake operational standard. This means that after a major earthquake, there will be fewer building demolitions, less people displaced, and communities returning to normal life more efficiently and faster. Impact Cost and Benefits of Constructing to Post-Earthquake Operational Standards will lay the ground work for future buildings to be built to a post-earthquake operational standard.
Status: Project underway Partners: Natural Resources Canada Audience: Local and federal
governments, policy developers, building officials
36 HOUSING RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS | JULY 2021
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