The implementation of the Italian National Seismic Prevention Plan: A focus on the seismic upgrading of critical buildings

Dolce, Mauro; Speranza, Elena; Martino, Giuseppina De; Conte, Chiara; Giordano, F.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102391

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“…This can be obtained according to the seismic hazard of the site and the vulnerability of the buildings. This type of analyses is especially important to set the different seismic retrofitting intervention priorities and in relation to higher importance classes [71]. Schools are one of those groups of buildings for which different types of rankings were suggested, usually based on the ratios between capacity and demand associated with a certain LS [72].…”

Section: Ranking School Buildingsmentioning

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Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries

Estêvão

Morales‐Esteban

Sá³

et al. 2022

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This work summarises the strategy adopted in the European research project PERSISTAH. It aims to increase the resilience of the population, focusing on the existing primary schools in the Algarve (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain) regions. Software was developed to assess the seismic safety of these schools, considering different earthquake scenarios. Seismic retrofitting measures were studied and numerically tested. Some of them were also implemented in the retrofitting activities of two case study schools (one in each country). It was found that the adopted ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) considerably affect the results obtained with the software, especially for offshore earthquake scenarios. Furthermore, the results show that the masonry buildings would be the most damaged school typologies for all the scenarios considered. Additionally, a set of guidelines was created to support the school community and the technicians related to the construction industry. The goal of these documents is to increase the seismic resilience of the population. Different activities were carried out to train schoolteachers in seismic safety based on the guidelines produced, obtaining positive feedback from them.

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Section: Ranking School Buildingsmentioning

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Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries

Estêvão

Morales‐Esteban

Sá³

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…For example, seismic design building codes typically account for local site conditions through different site classes, which are associated with different design spectra (Verdugo, 2019). At a regional scale, geophysical information has been leveraged to support decision-making related to risk-sensitive urban planning, building retrofitting programs, earthquake-related emergency response planning, and preemptive community relocation across various regions with high seismic hazard (Ansal & Tonuk, 2006;Barua et al, 2023;Celikbilek & Sapmaz, 2016;Dolce et al, 2021). However, the utility of geophysical information in earthquake DRM remains generally unclear amongst a myriad of other relevant (e.g., engineering, economic, planning) data (Quigley et al, 2020).…”

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A geophysics-informed pro-poor approach to earthquake risk management

Agrawal,

Wang,

Cremen

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Recent earthquake disasters have highlighted an urgent need for continuous advancements in approaches to reducing seismic risk. Decision-making on such strategies should consider subsurface geophysical information (e.g., seismic site response), given its direct link to seismic hazard. This is particularly important in regions where the poorest in society often reside in areas with softer soils that lead to higher ground-motion amplifications. In this context, we propose a framework to support decision-making on earthquake risk policies, which explicitly integrates information on the geophysics of an urban system as well as its physical and social environment. The framework is based on the Tomorrow’s Cities Decision Support Environment, which was designed to support urban planning with a focus on pro-poor disaster risk reduction in countries of the Global South. It is further underpinned by a cost-benefit analysis, which facilitates the assessment of potential policies in terms of both their ability to reduce earthquake risk as well as their value for (often limited) money. We illustrate the framework using a well-established virtual urban testbed based on Global South cities, which reveals that geophysics-informed policy making can successfully lead to pro-poor earthquake risk reduction.

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“…Large-scale risk assessments related to geo-hazards, namely, seismic, volcanic and hydrogeological, represent the basis for the development of risk-informed mitigation policies, such as long-term prevention programs or Civil Protection contingency plans, for an effective management of all the phases of the disaster risk cycle. For instance, they have been used in Italy for the distribution of funds among the Regions for the National seismic risk prevention program (Dolce, 2012;Dolce et al, 2021).…”

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“…It turns out that the development of large-scale risk analyses, necessarily requires additional vulnerability data that, in the case of the last national seismic maps developed in Italy in 2018 (Dolce et al, 2021), were limited to building features in areas previously hit by recent earthquakes. These were provided by a specific IT platform (DaDO-damage data observation) developed by Italian Civil Protection Department (ICPD) and collecting information on damage and structural features on ordinary buildings for 11 national seismic events (Dolce et al, 2019).…”

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“…The typological structural characterisation has been carried out with the aim of investigating the national construction panorama and identifying, from a qualitative point of view, local construction characteristics, in order to improve vulnerability evaluations, accounting for local typological features. Appropriate elaborations of the data collected through the CARTIS form provide indications for regionalisation of the seismic vulnerability classes and vulnerability functions, so far used on the whole national territory (Dolce et al, 2021).…”

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CARTIS: a method for the typological-structural characterization of Italian ordinary buildings in urban areas

Zuccaro

Dolce

Perelli

et al. 2023

Front. Built Environ.

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Large-scale risk assessments relevant to natural hazards are commonly based on very poor exposure and vulnerability data, often drawn from census data. In fact, obtaining a detailed knowledge of the built heritage is a very hard task especially for those countries, like Italy, characterized by very high urban density and large variety of building typologies, where a building-by-building knowledge can sound as a utopian ambition. Nevertheless, exposure and vulnerability are two of the four factors governing, along with hazard and capacity, risk convolution, and hence their uncertainties yield to corresponding uncertainties in the resulting expected losses. The lack of suitable information on building typologies is responsible of very strong simplifications in risk analyses, like the assumption of the same building typologies, indistinctly scattered all over the Country territory, without distinctions at a local or at a regional level. With the goal of improving exposure description and reducing such uncertainties, since 2014 the Italian Civil Protection Department (ICPD) has undertaken a new research branch in the framework of ReLUIS (Network of University Laboratories in Earthquake Engineering) projects, dedicated to territorial analyses, by funding also the CARTIS project. The project has the goal to characterize the building structural typologies trough a data collection at a local and an extensive scale in Italy, with the final aim to improve the reliability of seismic risk analyses. The paper describes the method and some first statistics so far elaborated.

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The implementation of the Italian National Seismic Prevention Plan: A focus on the seismic upgrading of critical buildings

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries

Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries

A geophysics-informed pro-poor approach to earthquake risk management

CARTIS: a method for the typological-structural characterization of Italian ordinary buildings in urban areas

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