Sustainability-Oriented Optimization and Decision Making of Community Buildings under Seismic Hazard

Abstract

Optimization and decision-making tools are often utilized to enhance the performance of community buildings under extreme events, but this may compromise the ability of future generations to enhance performance. Hence, a sustainability-oriented approach is required to enhance the performance of community buildings under extreme events. In this context, this paper proposes an optimization and decision-making framework considering multiple performance indicators, including socioeconomic and environmental consequences as well as retrofit costs. These performance indicators are assessed by utilizing performance-based assessment methodologies in terms of sustainability dimensions. The performance indicators are then exploited as multiple performance objectives in a genetic optimization to determine the Pareto optimal solutions. Finally, the Pareto optimal solutions are utilized for decision making to extract ideal solutions for the given retrofit costs. The ideal solutions provide trade-offs between the consequences of extreme events and the retrofit costs required to reduce the consequences of extreme events.