EXAMPLE 6. BUILDING VALUATION & REDESIGN STUDY

EXAMPLE 6: "STUDY FOR THE VALUATION AND REDESIGN OF A BUILDING ACCORDING TO THE CANC. 131 Comparing the two cases and assuming approximately that B and C classes diagonally are approximately the same, C1 corresponds approximately to B2+. So the second method will give me less favourable results than the first. In general, the second, newmethod favours older and weaker buildings while the existing method favours newer ones. In the programme, at present, the determination of the seismic class can only be done by testing, i.e. by testing evaluation targets from the basic seismic class (B). That target where for elastic analyses λ is below unity and for pushover the tests for the B performance level are below unity is the existing basic seismic class of the building. For this determination, however, we are preparing an automatic procedure where the program will automatically perform all the analyses and checks and will present the results in summary so that the designer can immediately find the seismic class of his building.