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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299618503321

Autore

Bignami Daniele Fabrizio

Titolo

Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification / / by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : , : Springer Milan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

88-470-5223-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, , 2191-5547

Disciplina

693.8

Soggetti

Natural disasters

Sustainable development

Urban planning

City planning

Quality control

Reliability

Industrial safety

Architecture

Building

Engineering

Structural engineering

Geographical information systems

Natural Hazards

Sustainable Development

Urbanism

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

Building Construction and Design

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Along the research path -- Acknowledgements  -- Chapter 1 Territory, buildings, sustainability and disaster risks: the necessity of new answers -- Chapter 2 Choices in developing the PRED certification scheme -- Chapter 3 Definition of the PRED rating and



labelling system  -- Chapter 4 Auditing and analytical procedure for risk assessment -- Concluding considerations: can we succeed in limiting the consequences of calamities? -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new initiatives to foster upgrading of existing building and enhancement of land planning strategies. “Safe Home” scheme is aimed at increasing urban safety requirements against hazards under an advanced labeling approach. It provides a quantitative evaluation of building performance through an objective, reproducible approach, assessing risks at a land, urban and building scale. Aim of this rating system is to result in useful information to different users, like land planning decision makers, owners, purchasers, tenants or property and real estate managers.