NRCC Guidelines for Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings



ACKNOWLEDGMENT

These guidelines were developed from the preliminary version of ''NEHRP Handbook for Seismic

Evaluation of Existing Buildings" issued by the u.s. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),

Washington, D.C., in June 1992. The preliminary version of this document was prepared by the Applied

Technology Council of Redwood City, California,

and identified as "ATC-22" in its series of publications.

These guidelines have been adapted to be compatible with Canadian practice and .the requirements of the

1990 National Building Code of Canada. A draft version was tried out on seven buildings across Canada. Feedback from trial applications

plus a review of the "NEHRP Handbook for Seismic Evaluation of

Existing BUildings" was used to revise those draft Guidelines. This project was made possible with joint

funding from Public Works Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, B.C. Housing

Management Corporation, Societe Immobiliere du Quebec, City of Vancouver, and the Institute for

Research in Construction of the National Research Council Canada.


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