Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A dbook

Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards, Third Edition incorporates several major enhancements, including:

• Update of the Data Collection Form, and the addition of an optional more detailed page to the form,
• Update of the Basic Scores and Score Modifiers,
• Update of the ground motion definitions,
• Preparation of additional reference guides,
• Inclusion of additional building types that are prevalent,
• Inclusion of additional considerations, such as nonstructural hazards,
• existing retrofits, building additions, and adjacency,
• Addition of an optional electronic scoring methodology, and
• Additional information on how to run an effective screening program

The technical basis for the rapid visual screening procedure is documented in the FEMA P-155 report, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation, (FEMA, 2015), which was also updated to the Third Edition. Note that per FEMA’s current report numbering system, the third editions of FEMA 154 and FEMA 155 are now referred to as FEMA P-154 and FEMA P-155, respectively.