Multidisciplinary Design and Assessment of Building Systems within a Multi-Hazards Framework

摘要

One of society's greatest concerns regarding abnormal demands is that a single event can cause a disproportionate extent of interruption of operations and ultimately harm to humans. The engineering community has worked in a coordinated fashion to develop solutions that minimize the number of fatalities and interruption of operations infrastructure in response to abnormal demands, such as hurricanes, flooding, seismic events, etc. Although design codes have been developed and are being maintained by different disciplines, no clear steps have been taken to propose an integrated design process with the explicit aim to reduce interruption of operations. Consequently, even with the best standards and design guidance available, optimized solutions for specific classes of hazards will be developed by some disciplines, inadvertently straining the designs of others. Designing solutions to an abnormal demand, concurrently with other hazards is not commonly considered in the industry. Currently building design codes do not exist that encompass considerations of multiple disciplines in providing guidance for specific hazards. What is missing in the engineering community is standards, design guidance, or even best practices which can improve overall performance of building systems to multiple hazards. This paper will summarize some of the developments that have been pursued with a multi-disciplinary approach to design building solutions for abnormal demands. Additionally, this paper will tie into the larger initiative of the AEI Building Integration Solution Committee for Abnormal Demands on Buildings, for developing a multidisciplinary assessment/design methodology that encompasses multiple abnormal demands.