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Resilience-Based Performance : Next Generation Guidelines for Buildings and Lifeline Standards, Paperback / softback Book

Resilience-Based Performance : Next Generation Guidelines for Buildings and Lifeline Standards Paperback / softback

Part of the Infrastructure Resilience Publication series

Paperback / softback

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Prepared by the Risk and Resilience Measurement Committee of the Infrastructure Resilience Division of ASCE. Resilience-Based Performance: Next Generation Guidelines for Buildings and Lifeline Standards, IRP 3, focuses on the enhancements that are needed in the design and construction of buildings and  lifeline systems to support a community’s social stability, economic vitality, and environmental sustainability. Topics include:Characterization of communities and their supporting infrastructureHazard assessmentMetrics and assessment methods for community resilienceMetrics and assessment methods for building and lifeline performance, andA conceptual framework for developing resilience-based performance standards. Current code-based standards focus on the performance of individual facilities and are out of sync with the resilience needs of the broader community and this Infrastructure Resilience Publication provides the basis of a new approach that will be of interest to engineers, economists, planners, and government officials.

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Also in the Infrastructure Resilience Publication series