Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

verfasst von: Daniele Fabrizio Bignami

Verlag: Springer Milan

Buchreihe : SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science

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Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new initiatives to foster upgrading of existing building and enhancement of land planning strategies. “Safe Home” scheme is aimed at increasing urban safety requirements against hazards under an advanced labeling approach. It provides a quantitative evaluation of building performance through an objective, reproducible approach, assessing risks at a land, urban and building scale. Aim of this rating system is to result in useful information to different users, like land planning decision makers, owners, purchasers, tenants or property and real estate managers.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Territory, Buildings, Sustainability and Disaster Risks: The Necessity of New Answers

Abstract

How safe is the building I am in? A question like this is what every member of the public probably asks himself when he comes across media articles describing the catastrophes that continually strike conurbations on our planet.

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Chapter 2. Choices in Developing the PRED Certification Scheme

Abstract

In Italy, safety initiatives such as the so-called “building certification record-book” (in Italian: fascicolo di fabbricato) (cf Consiglio di Stato 2007) have been put off for an indefinite time: the “file” contained procedures compulsory for all public and private buildings (Cattanei et al. 2002). Thus, the improvement in safety check systems for already existing buildings has remained unapplied despite the needs of safety checks.

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Chapter 3. Definition of the PRED Rating and Labelling System

Abstract

The scope of the PRED certification is not only to show the results of the predisposition of resistance to disasters evaluation but also to include minimum requirements and labels that allows different users to compare and assess potential buildings selected for a prospective employ.

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Chapter 4. Auditing and Analytical Procedure for Risk Indices Assessment

Abstract

Auditing and the analytical procedure for evaluating the risks weights, hazards, vulnerabilities and specific risks are carried out by developing the auditing phase described in the previous chapter and achieving the technical outputs and indices listed in Fig. 4.1.

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Chapter 5. Concluding Considerations: Can We Succeed in Limiting the Consequences of Calamities?

Abstract

In working for the experimental proposal of a multi-risk assessment certifying process, our approach took on the idea of a voluntary system devised to be managed mainly by a third-party body. The system first analyses the hazards of building territory and site, estimates the hazard and vulnerability of buildings and, in the case of satisfying positive findings in taking into account possible hazards and vulnerability interactions, eventually produces a labelling result for the potential buildings’ resistance (or strength) in the event of calamity.

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Backmatter

Titel: Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification
verfasst von: Daniele Fabrizio Bignami
Verlag: Springer Milan
Electronic ISBN: 978-88-470-5223-9
Print ISBN: 978-88-470-5222-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5223-9