@article {bnh-5433, title = {Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk Annual Report 2017-2018}, number = {464}, year = {2019}, month = {03/2019}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {
This project arose out of the on-going research efforts by the group involving\ structural engineering academics at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne and\ Swinburne with Geoscience Australia experts all working towards seismic risk\ reduction in Australia. Most of the research team are actively involved in the\ revision to the Australian Earthquake Loads standard (AS1170.4) as well as being\ members of the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society which is a Technical\ Society of Engineers Australia. The devastating impact of the 2010{\textendash}11\ earthquakes in the Christchurch region on the New Zealand economy and\ society has further motivated this group to contribute to this CRC{\textquoteright}s aims of risk\ reduction for all natural hazards in Australia.\ This project addresses the need for an evidence base to inform decision making\ on the mitigation of the risk posed by the most vulnerable Australian buildings\ subject to earthquakes. While the focus of this project is on buildings, many of\ the project outputs will also be relevant for other Australian infrastructure such as\ bridges, roads and ports, while at the\ same time complementing other {\textquoteleft}Natural\ Hazards{\textquoteright} CRC project proposals for severe wind and flood.
}, keywords = {cost-mitigation, earthquake}, author = {Michael Griffith and Hossein Derakhshan and Elisa Lumantarna and Hing-Ho Tsang and John Wilson and Nelson Lam and Mark Edwards and Martin Wehner} } @article {bnh-5742, title = {Cost-effective mitigation strategy for building related earthquake risk - annual report 2018-2019}, number = {498}, year = {2019}, month = {07/2019}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

This annual report contains a summary of 12-month research undertaken by 4 partner institutions towards the development of cost-effective seismic retrofit methods for vulnerable Australian buildings. Progress has been made in 3 complementary fronts to:
1) Understand the seismic vulnerabilities of existing unreinforced masonry (URM) and limited ductile reinforced concrete (LDRC) buildings and methods to address them through seismic retrofit;
2) Risk assessment of the building stock through development of an economic loss model; and
3) Advance an end user focused research utilization project in the area of community risk reduction. This is done through an Earthquake Mitigation Case Study for the historic town of York in Western Australia.

The first of the above components is being researched in the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Swinburne. This work includes investigation of existing building seismic capacities and development of retrofit techniques. The second area is being studied by Geoscience and the work includes estimating direct and indirect losses associated with building damage and benefits from seismic retrofit. The last component is being conducted utilizing the research findings in the two other areas in collaboration with the Western Australia Department of Fire and Emergency Services, York Shire Council and its residents. Finally, using the new damage loss models and costings for seismically retrofitting buildings, recommendations are made for the development of seismic retrofit guidelines and policy based on the strong evidence base being developed by this CRC project team.

}, keywords = {building risk, cost-effective, cost-mitigation, earthquake, risk}, issn = {498}, author = {Michael Griffith} }