Risk Management Series

Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Office Buildings

Providing Protection to People and Buildings

FEMA 397  December 2003

FEMA 




Appendix II. 

Integration Opportunities for Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation for Small 
Organizations and Individual Owners 

Small organizations or individual owners with limited professional facility 
management may use the following matrix to identify opportunities to integrate 
incremental seismic rehabilitation with maintenance and capital improvement 
projects. These opportunities can be identified on the basis of a quick evaluation 
by a design professional. 

The categories of maintenance and capital improvement projects included in the 
columns of this matrix are: 

     1. Roofing Maintenance & Repair/Re-Roofing 

     2. Exterior Wall and Window Maintenance/FaŤade Modernization 

     3. Public Area Modernization 

     4. Fire and Life Safety Improvements 

     5. New Technology Accommodation 

     6. Tenant Alterations and Improvements 

     7. Underfloor and Basement Work 

These categories are the same as those included in Section C.2, and are described 
in detail in the text portions of Sections C.2.1 through C.2.7, respectively. Two 
remaining categories of maintenance and capital improvement projects are not 
included in this matrix, but their respective integration opportunities can be 
identified by reference to several of the preceding seven, as follows: 

     1. HVAC Upgrade and Energy Conservation-integration opportunities from 1, 2, 
3, and 6. 

     2. Hazardous Materials Abatement-integration opportunities from 3, 4, 5, and 
6. 

Owners using this Appendix are encouraged to retain the services of a seismic 
engineer to identify additional incremental seismic improvements as discussed in 
Part C.