National School Seismic Retrofit Project in Israel

Abstract eng:
According to a decision made by the Government of the State of Israel in 2010, a $1,000,000,000 budget for a national project to retrofit thousands of public buildings was set for a period of 25 years. The Ministry of Education was presented the challenge of handling the evaluation and possible treatment of about 1,600 school structures. In order to overcome the hardships that were faced during the first 4 years of the project running, a unique procedure that allows rapid, efficient detection of the most vulnerable schools was adopted. Furthermore, advanced seismic engineering approaches, that allow smarter and more feasible design solutions, minimal interruptions to the ongoing functionality of the school structure, and more reliable performance of the structure during seismic action were adopted. This paper gives a general overview of the national program, introduces the difficulties that were faced in its first few years running, and discusses the approaches and solutions that were used in order to overcome them, while presenting several projects that were carried out in 2014-2016.

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