Evaluation of building code compliance in Mexico City: mid-rise dwellings

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Reinoso ◽  
Miguel A. Jaimes ◽  
Marco A. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Building Code ◽  
Code Compliance

A Proposal of Data Generation Guide for openBIM-based Building Code Compliance Checking

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Inhan Kim ◽  
Sejin Lee ◽  
Jiyoung Kim ◽  
Ahjin Lee ◽  
Jungsik Choi
Keyword(s):  
Building Code ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Compliance Checking ◽  
Code Compliance

Private/public partnerships to ensure building code compliance

Facilities ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Loesch ◽  
David Hammerman
Keyword(s):  
Building Code ◽  
Code Compliance ◽  
Public Partnerships

Implementing Nepal's National Building Code: A Case Study in Patience and Persistence

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 167-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Arendt ◽  
Ayse Hortacsu ◽  
Kishor Jaiswal ◽  
John Bevington ◽  
Surya Shrestha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Building Code ◽  
National Society ◽  
Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
2015 Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Code Compliance ◽  
And Training

The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal revealed the relative effectiveness of the Nepal Standard or the national building code (NBC), and irregular compliance with it in different parts of Nepal. Much of the damage to more than half a million residential structures in Nepal may be attributed to the prevalence of owner-built or owner-supervised construction and the lack of owner and builder responsiveness to seismic risk and training in the appropriate means of complying with the NBC. To explain these circumstances, we review the protracted implementation of the NBC and the role played by one organization, the National Society for Earthquake Technology—Nepal (NSET), in the implementation of the NBC. We also share observations on building code compliance made by individuals in Nepal participating in workshops led by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's 2014 class of Housner Fellows.

Inelastic Dynamic Seismic Response of 15-Story and 25-Story RC Buildings with and without Shear Walls Designed with the Mexico City Building Code

2015 ◽  
Vol 665 ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Avila ◽  
Jorge Arturo Avila-Haro
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Shear Walls ◽  
Building Code ◽  
Limit States ◽  
Foundation Design ◽  
Seismic Demands ◽  
Soil Zone ◽  
Group B ◽  
A Minor

The inelastic seismic behavior of two reinforced concrete buildings of 15-story and 25-story is compared with and without shear-walls. The resistance-seismic design and vertical loads is made according to the requirements of the Mexico City Building Code, RCDF-2004, satisfying the limit states of service and resistance: compressible seismic area, group B. Inelastic dynamic seismic responses are determined with step-by-step analysis under SCT-EW-85 record with the nominal resistance and over-resistance effects. Results show the importance of the participation of the shear-walls to help to reduction of the magnitude of structural damages during severe seismic future events. The shear walls located in adequate form inside the structure provide an excellent additional lateral stiffness to solve the common flexibility problems in the soft soil zone of the Valley of Mexico and therefore to avoid severe additional torsion problems. In the shear wall constructions we should pay special attention to the foundation design. It was verified that the shear strengths of the structural elements selected were higher than the seismic demands. In the cases of over-strengths considered, it can be concluded that had a minor incursion in the interval of inelastic performance compared with the inelastic performance presented in the cases of nominal strengths.

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