Structural safety

MCEER is a national center of excellence dedicated to the discovery and development of new knowledge, tools and technologies that equip communities to become more disaster resilient in the face of earthquakes and other extreme events. MCEER accomplishes

Health facilities, including hospitals, are facilities exposed to natural hazards. Considering the critical need for these institutions in the aftermath of disasters, priority should be put on identifying and reducing the weaknesses of existing facilities

Vulnerability reduction in health facilities should not be circumscribed to protect the life of their occupants and the investment itself but ensure that the health facilities must keep functioning during a disaster event. This implies the increase of its

At present each infrastructure knows very well what to do when problems occur within its system: how to readjust operation while repairs are being made. Risk analysis and reliability studies are done internally on each infrastructure, but do not consider

During the design process the structural engineer must assure that the building will be able to resist the lateral loads imposed on the structure. Usually in Latin American countries the lateral loads utilized for design are those produced by earthquakes

This document invites Member States to assign priority to keeping hospitals functioning in the aftermath of major catastrophes. It also makes the case for ensuring that reducing the functional vulnerability of hospitals be designated a benchmark or

Thess guidelines are for assisting health-sector professionals and authorities to implement qualitative assessments of structural and non-structural earthquake vulnerability of hospitals and health institutions. Additionally, disaster risk managers, who

This checklist records elements relating to the geographic location of the health facility to be evaluated such as geological, hydro-meteorological, social, environmental sanitation, chemical and/or technological phenomena, and geotechnical properties of