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Handbook for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Exhisting Buildings http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=publishedFile&file=fema547.pdf&fileid=aa5425d0-1a8b-11dc-b1f0-000bdba87d5b
Utah Guide for the Seismic Improvement of Unreinforced Masonry Dwellings http://homelandsecurity.utah.gov/utahseismic/tableoc.html
Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners,and authorities http://www.preventionweb.net/files/7552_SeismicConceptualDesign.pdf
What is seismic retrofit (with pictures) http://www.saundersseismic.com/articles/Saunders%20Construction-What%20is%20a%20Seismic_Retrofit_1_%203-19-08.pdf
Video
Comcast On Demand: Getting your home ready for earthquakes, non structural retrofit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgp84mmZB4&eurl=http://www.soundseismic.com/live/home/home/
7 Steps to Earthquake Safety: Secure your building
http://www.daretoprepare.org/secure_your_building.html
BAS How you Can Strengthen your Home http://www.cert-la.com/BAS-How-You-Can-Strengthen-Your-Home.pdf
FEMA National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program:
Earthquake Safety Guide for Homeowners
"This updated safety guide, which was originally developed and published by the California Seismic Safety Commission, provides homeowners with a good start to strengthening their homes against earthquake damage. The guide also illustrates the relative cost of prevention versus repair or replacement."
http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=publishedFile&file=fema-528.pdf&fileid=e57783b0-1e55-11db-b486-000bdba87d5b
text version: http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=originalAccessibleFormatFile&file=fema-530.txt&fileid=e4f53451-1e55-11db-b486-000bdba87d5b
Homebuilders' Guide to Earthquake-Resistant? Design and Construction
Seismic design and construction guidance for one- and two-family light frame residential structures that can be utilized by homebuilders, homeowners, and other non-engineers, and provides supplemental information to the 2003 edition of the International Residential Code.
Includes background information on the principles of seismic resistance and how earthquake forces impact conventional residential construction and more detailed information on architectural considerations. Discussions of masonry and stone elements, examples of typical floor plans for earthquake resistant one- and two-story homes, excerpts of seismic requirements from building codes, and checklists for home builders are included. The guide also presents a series of "above code recommendations" and low cost measures that would increase the performance of the building and help keep it functional after an earthquake.
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2103
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook. Second Edition
This handbook presents a method to quickly identify, inventory, and rank buildings posing risk of death, injury, or severe curtailment in use following an earthquake. The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) procedure can be used by trained personnel to identify potentially hazardous buildings with a 15- to 30-minute exterior inspection, using a data collection form included in the handbook.
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=1415
FEMA http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake/fema74/index.shtm
http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofit.htm#retrofitresources
"The best place to start is at the Home Retrofit Class for Homeowners http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofitclasses.htm . If you take the class and find out your home needs to be retrofitted, there are two ways to accomplish it: doing it yourself or hiring a contractor trained on the new standards. By taking the Home Retrofit Class for Homeowners http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/news/calendar.htm , you will have a better understanding as to which is the best method for you. Even if you already know that your home needs to be retrofitted and you are going to hire one of the trained contractors http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/contractors.htm#list , we still recommend that you attend a class to understand the process and to be a better informed consumer.
Even before you take a class, you can read our EARTHQUAKE HOME RETROFIT HANDBOOK
Resources
City of Seattle Building Permits & Prescriptive Standards
Department of Planning & Development
(206) 684-8850
(If your house is not in Seattle, you can find the numbers of participating in Regional Home Retrofit below http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofit.htm#regional#regional )
Homeowner Instruction, Self-Help? Workshops, Tool Lending, Contractor Training/Referral
UW, Phinney Neighborhood Association, Project Impact 1-877-2-BOLT-IT
Loans
Seattle Office of Housing's HomeWise? Loan Program http://www.seattle.gov/housing/HomeWise/default.htm
(Low-interest loans for low to moderate income Seattle homeowners)
(206)684-0244
Regional Home Retrofit
(206) 296-6797 -Permit Appt
(Seismic Retrofit Classes for Homeowners - taught by Roger Faris)
(425) 556-2456(fax) "
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/fixit/training.html
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has funded the development of extensive materials to train contractors and building inspectors on how to perform common earthquake retrofits for single family homes. These materials are used in the contractor and building inspector training sponsored by ABAG.
The materials include both a Manual and a slide presentation. The ENTIRE Manual is available as Adobe Acrobat files, and via ftp as MS Word files. The slide presentations are available as html presentations, and via ftp as PowerPoint? files.
FEMA: Seismic Rehabilitation Cost Estimator: http://www.fema.gov/srce/
Home Seismic Retrofit Seattle Case Study http://www.wvdhsem.gov/WV_Disaster_Library/Library/Earthquake/FEMA-Home%20Retrofit%20Case%20Studies.pdf
Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabiliting, Restoring & Reconstruction of Historic Buildings. http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/standguide/
Utah: Bracing for the Big One: Seismic Retrofit of Historic Houses: http://history.utah.gov/historic_buildings/information_and_research/bracing_for_the_big_one.html
Preservation Seattle: Updates on Historic Seattle Buildings: http://www.historicseattle.org/preservationseattle/techniques/defaultmar.htm
Seattle: List of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings considered at risk: http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/news/URMfinalreport.pdf
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Design and Construction
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Preparing for Earthquakes
What to do during and Earthquake
What to do After an Earthquake
Table of contents
Seismic Retrofit
Handbook for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Exhisting Buildings http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=publishedFile&file=fema547.pdf&fileid=aa5425d0-1a8b-11dc-b1f0-000bdba87d5b
Utah Guide for the Seismic Improvement of Unreinforced Masonry Dwellings http://homelandsecurity.utah.gov/utahseismic/tableoc.html
Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners,and authorities http://www.preventionweb.net/files/7552_SeismicConceptualDesign.pdf
What is seismic retrofit (with pictures) http://www.saundersseismic.com/articles/Saunders%20Construction-What%20is%20a%20Seismic_Retrofit_1_%203-19-08.pdf
Home Retrofit
Video
Comcast On Demand: Getting your home ready for earthquakes, non structural retrofit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgp84mmZB4&eurl=http://www.soundseismic.com/live/home/home/
7 Steps to Earthquake Safety: Secure your building
http://www.daretoprepare.org/secure_your_building.html
BAS How you Can Strengthen your Home http://www.cert-la.com/BAS-How-You-Can-Strengthen-Your-Home.pdf
FEMA National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program:
Earthquake Safety Guide for Homeowners
"This updated safety guide, which was originally developed and published by the California Seismic Safety Commission, provides homeowners with a good start to strengthening their homes against earthquake damage. The guide also illustrates the relative cost of prevention versus repair or replacement."
http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=publishedFile&file=fema-528.pdf&fileid=e57783b0-1e55-11db-b486-000bdba87d5b
text version: http://www.fema.gov/library/file?type=originalAccessibleFormatFile&file=fema-530.txt&fileid=e4f53451-1e55-11db-b486-000bdba87d5b
Homebuilders' Guide to Earthquake-Resistant? Design and Construction
Seismic design and construction guidance for one- and two-family light frame residential structures that can be utilized by homebuilders, homeowners, and other non-engineers, and provides supplemental information to the 2003 edition of the International Residential Code.
Includes background information on the principles of seismic resistance and how earthquake forces impact conventional residential construction and more detailed information on architectural considerations. Discussions of masonry and stone elements, examples of typical floor plans for earthquake resistant one- and two-story homes, excerpts of seismic requirements from building codes, and checklists for home builders are included. The guide also presents a series of "above code recommendations" and low cost measures that would increase the performance of the building and help keep it functional after an earthquake.
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2103
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook. Second Edition
This handbook presents a method to quickly identify, inventory, and rank buildings posing risk of death, injury, or severe curtailment in use following an earthquake. The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) procedure can be used by trained personnel to identify potentially hazardous buildings with a 15- to 30-minute exterior inspection, using a data collection form included in the handbook.
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=1415
Non Structural Retrofit
FEMA http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake/fema74/index.shtm
Project Impact
City of Seattle websitehttp://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofit.htm#retrofitresources
"The best place to start is at the Home Retrofit Class for Homeowners http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofitclasses.htm . If you take the class and find out your home needs to be retrofitted, there are two ways to accomplish it: doing it yourself or hiring a contractor trained on the new standards. By taking the Home Retrofit Class for Homeowners http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/news/calendar.htm , you will have a better understanding as to which is the best method for you. Even if you already know that your home needs to be retrofitted and you are going to hire one of the trained contractors http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/contractors.htm#list , we still recommend that you attend a class to understand the process and to be a better informed consumer.
Even before you take a class, you can read our EARTHQUAKE HOME RETROFIT HANDBOOK
- Chapter 1 - Home Retrofit Overview http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/library/mitigation/HR%20Book%201%20-%20overview.pdf (pdf 760KB)
- Chapter 2 - Guide to Completing the Home Assessment Checklist http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/library/mitigation/HR%20Book%202%20-%20assessment.pdf (pdf 1.33MB)
- Chapter 3 - Guide to Completing and Earthquake Retrofit Plan for Wood Frame Residential Buildings http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/library/mitigation/HR%20Book3%20-%20woodframe.pdf (pdf 1.5MB)
- Appendices for Chapter 3 http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/library/mitigation/HR%20Book%203%20-%20appendices.pdf (pdf 800KB)
Resources
City of Seattle Building Permits & Prescriptive Standards
Department of Planning & Development
(206) 684-8850
(If your house is not in Seattle, you can find the numbers of participating in Regional Home Retrofit below http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/info/retrofit.htm#regional#regional )
Homeowner Instruction, Self-Help? Workshops, Tool Lending, Contractor Training/Referral
UW, Phinney Neighborhood Association, Project Impact 1-877-2-BOLT-IT
Loans
Seattle Office of Housing's HomeWise? Loan Program http://www.seattle.gov/housing/HomeWise/default.htm
(Low-interest loans for low to moderate income Seattle homeowners)
(206)684-0244
Regional Home Retrofit
- Bellevue Planning and Community Development Department http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/pcd_homepage.htm
- King County Building Services Division (DDES) http://www.metrokc.gov/ddes/
(206) 296-6797 -Permit Appt
- Kirkland Fire & Building Department http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/depart/Fire_and_Building.htm
(Seismic Retrofit Classes for Homeowners - taught by Roger Faris)
- Pierce County Building Inspection http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/services/home/property/pals/permits/submitl.htm
- Redmond Building Division http://www.ci.redmond.wa.us/insidecityhall/planning/building/building.asp
(425) 556-2456(fax) "
Association of Bay Area Governments
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/fixit/training.html
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has funded the development of extensive materials to train contractors and building inspectors on how to perform common earthquake retrofits for single family homes. These materials are used in the contractor and building inspector training sponsored by ABAG.
The materials include both a Manual and a slide presentation. The ENTIRE Manual is available as Adobe Acrobat files, and via ftp as MS Word files. The slide presentations are available as html presentations, and via ftp as PowerPoint? files.
Structural Seismic Retrofit
FEMA: Seismic Rehabilitation Cost Estimator: http://www.fema.gov/srce/
Home Seismic Retrofit Seattle Case Study http://www.wvdhsem.gov/WV_Disaster_Library/Library/Earthquake/FEMA-Home%20Retrofit%20Case%20Studies.pdf
Bridges
Seismic Retrofit Program of Washington Bridges http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/preservation/pdf/BrgSeismicPaper.pdfHistoric Buildings
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/briefs/brief41.htmSecretary of the Interior's Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabiliting, Restoring & Reconstruction of Historic Buildings. http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/standguide/
Utah: Bracing for the Big One: Seismic Retrofit of Historic Houses: http://history.utah.gov/historic_buildings/information_and_research/bracing_for_the_big_one.html
Preservation Seattle: Updates on Historic Seattle Buildings: http://www.historicseattle.org/preservationseattle/techniques/defaultmar.htm
Seattle: List of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings considered at risk: http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/news/URMfinalreport.pdf
Fire Retrofit
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