Description |
1 online resource (84 pages) |
Contents |
""Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY""; ""Contents""; ""1 INTRODUCTION""; ""SOURCE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY""; ""FOCUS AND STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT""; ""2 RISK AND ITS ANALYSIS IN AND AROUND BUILDINGS""; ""DEFINING RISK""; ""SOURCES OF RISK""; ""MECHANISMS USED TO LIMIT RISK""; ""ACHIEVING GREATER SAFETY""; ""WEIGHING RISK AND COSTS""; ""3 USING RISK ANALYSIS TO ENHANCE BUILDING SAFETY AND PROTECT PROPERTYVALUES "" |
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""Logic and process of building risk analysis""""need for information and data""; ""benefits and costs of risk reduction""; ""institutional setting for safety and risk management""; ""4 opportunities for enhancing safety and protecting values""; ""areas of opportunity""; ""overcoming lack of data for risk analysis""; ""mobilizing for risk analysis""; ""communicating with the public""; ""5 findings and conclusions""; ""building safety and risk""; ""an analysis process""; ""broader use of risk analysis"" |
Bibliography |
""References and selected bibliography on data and methods for risk analysis of constructed facilities""""appendix a biographical sketches of committee members and staff ""; ""staff""; ""appendix b current recognition of risk and risk-based design at selected federal agencies""; ""types and sources of risks""; ""characterizing and assessing risk""; ""management and limitation of risk""; ""appendix c illustrative risk analysis methods ""; ""preliminary hazard analysis""; ""failure modes and effects analysis""; ""criticality analysis""; ""event trees""; ""fault trees"" |
Notes |
""Appendix d probabilistic risk assessment42 "" |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Buildings -- Protection.
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Risk assessment.
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Building failures.
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Risk Assessment
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risk assessment.
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Building failures
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Buildings -- Protection
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Risk assessment
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
McDowell, Bruce D
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Lemers, Andrew C
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ISBN |
9780309584241 |
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0309584248 |
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