Seismic Assessment of Public and Historical Buildings, Strategic or Relevant for Civil Protection During an Earthquake: The Latium Region Program

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This paper presents the activities carried out by Latium Region (LR), whose capital is Rome, in cooperation with the National Department of Civil Protection (NCPD), aimed to the seismic safety assessment of public and historical buildings, strategic for civil protection or relevant for the consequences of a collapse. A national effort in this field started after the October 2002 San Giuliano di Puglia earthquake, where 29 people died under collapse of a school, highlighting once again the vulnerability of many existing structures. After the earthquake the Ordinance of the President of the Ministers’ Council (OPCM) 3274 of march 2003 enforced the seismic assessment of all the strategic and relevant constructions. Another OPCM granted funds to support this action. LR, like almost all other regions joined this effort. This project develops a new pathway to reduce the seismic risk in Italy, through the definition of annual programs for seismic assessment and rehabilitation works, the issue of regional technique guidelines and the documentation of the results through a synthetic form summarizing the assessment data and results. Furthermore LR constituted a Regional Scientific Technical Committee (RSTC) to monitor the effort and technically advise involved professionals (Structural Engineers, Architects and Geologists). This first economic and technical effort of LR, that, with the 50% cofounds of NCPD, reaches about 28 million of Euro (about 44Ml USD) in two years, allows to face only a minimal part of the Latium needs, nevertheless it is an important step towards the seismic risk reduction.

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