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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design an Operations
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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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 ""
""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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Subject Buildings -- Protection.
Risk assessment.
Building failures.
Risk Assessment
risk assessment.
Building failures
Buildings -- Protection
Risk assessment
Form Electronic book
Author McDowell, Bruce D
Lemers, Andrew C
ISBN 9780309584241
0309584248