Civil engineering Risk assessment of building inventories exposed to large scale natural hazards GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Bruce R. Ellingwood VitoontusSoravitEarthquakes, among the most devastating and unpredictable of natural hazards that affect civil infrastructure, have the potential for causing ...
Analysis of the weightiness of site effects on reinforced concrete (RC) building seismic behaviour: The Adra town example (SE Spain) The damage distribution in Adra town (south-eastern Spain) during the 1993 and 1994 Adra earthquakes (5.0 magnitude), that reached a maximum intensity degr... ...
This chapter explores a very positive example of enterprise risk management (ERM) development in Mexico, set by the firm Grupo Proeza, from which valuable and highly generalisable lessons can be learned. These lessons will pertain most centrally to Grupo Proeza's techniques of ERM building, where...
Each key risk type demands a specific set of skills and its own philosophical approach. For example, most banks treat market and credit risks as a natural part of their business. They recognize that risk scales alongside reward and actively pursue risky assets. An increase in operational risks,...
Risk transfer:Risk transfer involves passing the risk to a third party. This strategy shifts the risk from the organization onto another party; in many cases, the risk shifts to an insurance company. An example of this is obtaining an insurance policy to cover property damage or personal injury...
If you are still working to build a case for enterprise change management, the Example Business Case for Enterprise Change Management offers tips and a template you can use to present the rationale and approach for building organizational change management capability in a clear and structured way....
Risk assessment Impact Vulnerability Building damage Deep excavation Contingency table 1. Introduction Groundwork projects, such as deep excavations and tunnelling, are increasingly common in highly urbanized areas. Use of the underground is not limited to large-scale infrastructure projects (Broere, 2016...
For example, a building that’s in a low-lying area, and/or close to a river or other body of water, is at greater risk of flooding or other water-related damage. Or a building in a crowded urban area close to other buildings may be more vulnerable to damage from a vehicle accident...
the order o the 13 sections o the Building Vulnerability Assessment Checklist in Appendix A o FEMA 452. 2.2.2 OPeRatiOnaL MeasURes The list o incremental operational measures is presented in Chapter 5, Section 5.11 as an example o measures that might be generated by the FEMA 452 process...
4.2. Adaption of selected robustness assessment methods in the present context This section illustrates the selected methods using a simple example with annual overheating hours (h/a) as the only performance indicator; in Section 4.3, a more realistic case with multiple performance criteria is conside...