Buildings and Infrastructure

Keeping the building and infrastructure sound, and in clean, safe working order. 

The recovery phase of a burn MCI should aim to return the affected community to its predisaster state. Buildings and infrastructure that have been damaged by the incident should be repaired or removed if damage is too severe. The American Red Cross has traditionally reached out to those involved in fire-related disasters by helping them access available resources to meet their needs. Psychological effects on those affected may... 

Human capacity building and infrastructure development should be encouraged. 

Department of Materials and Structures, SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway. 

Research on multi-functional textiles embedding sensors for the structural health assessment of buildings and infrastructures is very active, and many commercial products are emerging in the market. EU projects such as POLYTECT, MULTITEXCO, and SUSTASMART have open the way towards this development and represent the state of the art of this technology. The current developments are focused on the standardisation of those products for a wider and more diffuse application in construction. 

The government plans and expects all new residents to live in apartment complexes, not in squatter type settlements that emerged with the planning of Brasilia. The growth of buildings and infrastructure in the township not only led to an increase in urban settlement and networks, but also the distribution of political and economic interests between the public and private sectors (Figs. 58.7 and 58.8). 

Chapter 7 Plant Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Chapter 8 Buildings and Infrastructure... 

Program for improving Quezon City Government s capacity and expertise in building and infrastructure construction project development permitting, monitoring and evaluation Medium- term... 

On December 26, 2003, at 5 56 local time, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 devastated the city of Bam, in southeast Iran. More than 26,000 people died, 30,000 were injured, and about 85 % of the buildings and infrastructures were destroyed (Hisada et al. 2004). 

Governments must develop and implement a solid strategy for the reconstruction or possible retrofit of the nation s buildings and infrastructure. 

PSI and SBAS approaches have been used to investigate several aspects of risks for monitoring of coseismic and post-seismic deformation corresponding to several major earthquakes, volcanoes deformation, landslides, etc., as well as for the monitoring of buildings and infrastructures (Cascini et al. 2007 Arangio et al. 2013). 

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