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Seismic Retrofit Added 17% to the Resale Value of Older California Houses
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: We examined the resale prices of 217 recently sold California single-family dwellings built before 1960 to determine whether buyers value seismic retrofit. Of these, sellers indicated that 29 houses had been seismically ...
Special Issue on the ARkStorm Scenario: California’s Other Big One
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Probabilistic Models for Residual and Peak Transient Tilt of Mat-Founded Structures on Liquefiable Soils
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper presents probabilistic models for predicting the residual and peak transient tilt of mat-founded structures on liquefiable ground. First, the study presents a completely empirical model based on correlating ...
Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Mitigation decreases the losses from natural hazards by reducing our vulnerability or by reducing the frequency and magnitude of causal factors. Reducing these losses brings many benefits, but every mitigation activity has ...