Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in the Building Industry

Noor Cholis Idham

doi:10.20885/jars.vol4.iss2.art11

Abstract

Architects have a significant role in the building industry, starting from the initial plan to detailed construction and even adaptive reuse of the building. However, the safety issues related to building under an earthquake is usually going to the effort of making its integrity; thus, it commonly became the matter of engineer works and the construction process. This paper studies how actually architect plays a more significant part to deal with earthquake disaster in the complete cycles of building. The architect roles in building safety are discussed in every step in the building industry. It is clear enough that the architects are the ones mastering in every precaution related to the mitigation, from macro to micro, from start to finish, and from one to other aspects of the building. Neglecting one of those will only leave the occupants in danger. Keywords: Architect role; Building safety; Earthquake disaster mitigation.

Highlights

Earthquakes are not the direct cause of loss of life and injuries, but the building failures
The result from the failures linked by the role of the architect which is from the initial to the end of the building cycles
Ahzahar.et al found that most of building failures were always involving the architects in most of the building cycle starting from fail on construction materials, faulty during construction, corruption, lack of supervision, faulty design, climatic condition, lack of maintenance, building type, and change in use, and location of building (Ahzahar, Karim, Hassan, & Eman, 2011)

Summary

Introduction

Earthquakes are not the direct cause of loss of life and injuries, but the building failures. Earthquake-resistant buildings, which focus more on the matter of structural strength, different from building-safe concepts (Yashinsky, 2006). The impact of an earthquake is often only discussed on the technical matters in the building strength calculation. 73,338 people dead and 128,304 injured, 3.5 million people homeless, 462,363 houses destroyed, and 109,956 damaged. The principle of earthquake-safe buildings allows buildings to be damaged or even collapse when a significant earthquake occurs, but the user should be safe. The impact of an earthquake on buildings must be examined concerning how an earthquake damages buildings. The nature and character of earthquake energy relate to the damage are significant concerns. For this reason, a thorough discussion is necessary to reduce the impact of the earthquake. The effects on different types of buildings can be analyzed in the same shock

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