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Author(s) Pereira, John

Costs and benefits of disaster mitigation in the construction industry

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Organization of American States
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This paper outlines some of the causes of failure observed in the losses incurred by the passage of Hurricane Gilbert over the island of Jamaica in 1988. It also presents the observations made from the effects of the Woodford (Jamaica) earthquake of 13 January 1993 on buildings in Kingston (M.M. Intensity VII).

From the lessons learnt by these observations, and the code of requirements of the national building code of Jamaica, the paper seeks to present the cost of including mitigation measures at the design/construction stage of the development of a building.

The benefits of designing and constructing hurricane and earthquake resistant buildings is also outlined by an indication of the relative losses which could occur from the effects of these two natural phenomena.

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Hazards Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon Earthquake
Themes Urban risk and planning Economics of DRR Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Jamaica
Publication year
1995

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