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Title: Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures: Report of Discussions

Abstract

How to ensure the appropriate performance of our built environment in the face of normal conditions, natural hazards, and malevolent threats is an issue of emerging national and international importance. As the world population increases, new construction must be increasingly cost effective and at the same time increasingly secure, safe, and durable. As the existing infrastructure ages, materials and techniques for retrofitting must be developed in parallel with improvements in design, engineering, and building codes for new construction. Both new and renovated structures are more often being subjected to the scrutiny of risk analysis. An international conference, "Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures," was held in May 1997 to address some of these issues. The conference was co-sponsored by the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Institute of Architects, and Sandia National Laboratories and convened in Albuquerque, NM. Many of the papers presented at the conference are found within this issue of Techno20~. This paper presents some of the major conference themes and summarizes discussions not found in the other papers.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
7069
Report Number(s):
SAND99-1359J
ON: DE00007069
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Technology
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; Buildings; Performance; Meetings; Risk Assessment

Citation Formats

Hunter, Regina L. Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures: Report of Discussions. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Hunter, Regina L. Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures: Report of Discussions. United States.
Hunter, Regina L. 1999. "Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures: Report of Discussions". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7069.
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title = {Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures: Report of Discussions},
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abstractNote = {How to ensure the appropriate performance of our built environment in the face of normal conditions, natural hazards, and malevolent threats is an issue of emerging national and international importance. As the world population increases, new construction must be increasingly cost effective and at the same time increasingly secure, safe, and durable. As the existing infrastructure ages, materials and techniques for retrofitting must be developed in parallel with improvements in design, engineering, and building codes for new construction. Both new and renovated structures are more often being subjected to the scrutiny of risk analysis. An international conference, "Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures," was held in May 1997 to address some of these issues. The conference was co-sponsored by the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Institute of Architects, and Sandia National Laboratories and convened in Albuquerque, NM. Many of the papers presented at the conference are found within this issue of Techno20~. This paper presents some of the major conference themes and summarizes discussions not found in the other papers.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7069}, journal = {Technology},
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year = {Fri May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
month = {Fri May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1999}
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