Prioritising earthquake retrofitting in Wellington, New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3898590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thoa Hoang (0000-0003-1663-7164, PhD student in economics at Wellington School of Business and Government Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand, corresponding author), Ilan Noy (0000-0003-3214-6568, Inaugural Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand), Olga Filippova (0000-0001-8242-551X, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland New Zealand), Ken Elwood (Research Director for Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE: NZ Centre for Earthquake Resilience University of Auckland New Zealand) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 968-995 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12450 |
| PMID | 32613663 |
| OpenAlex | W3038149064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
This study describes the application of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to prioritise the seismic risk mitigation of existing buildings in earthquake-prone Wellington, New Zealand. Through retrofitting or demolition, this is an important requirement in many cities around the Pacific Rim and in other high-level seismic hazard locations. The prioritisation strategy proposed here, based on MCDA methods, can provide decision-makers with a fast and reliable support tool for identifying the optimal sequencing of their retrofitting programmes. The premise of the MCDA analysis presented in this paper is that there are multiple criteria that determine societal prioritisation preferences; these are limited not just to life safety (often the explicit/exclusive priority of governments) and commercial value (the main concern of many building owners). The study demonstrates how different measures, within four general criteria-life safety and geo-spatial, economic, and socio-cultural roles-can be operationalised as a viable framework for establishing intervention policy priorities
Business · Civil engineering · Construction engineering · Decision analysis · Demolition · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Forensic engineering · Geography · Multiple-criteria decision analysis · Operations research · Poison control · Retrofitting · Risk analysis (engineering · Transport engineering · Engineering · Environmental Science · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Medicine · Seismic Performance and Analysis · Value Engineering and Management
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |