Risk Management Series

Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Hotel and Motel Buildings
Providing Protection to People and Buildings

FEMA 400 / April 2005
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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 and Repair/Re-roofing
2. Exterior Wall and Window Maintenance/Façade Modernization
3. Fire and Life Safety Improvements 
4. Public and Service Area Modernization 
5. Underfloor and Basement Maintenance and Repair
6. Guestroom Finishing, Furniture, and Equipment (FF&E)

These categories are the same as those included in Section C.2, described in 
detail in the text portions of Sections C.2.1 through C.2.5, and C.2.8, 
respectively. Three 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 six, as 
follows

7. HVAC Upgrade and Energy Conservation/Indoor Air Quality Improvement—
integration opportunities from 1, 2, and 4
8. Hazardous Materials Abatement—integration opportunities from 3 and 4
9. Public Area FF&E—integration opportunities from 4

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.


Simplified Matrix of Seismic Performance Improvements

Categories of maintenance and capital improvement projects
1. Roofing Maintenance & Repair/Re-roofing
3. Fire & Life Safety Improvements
2. Exterior Wall & Window Work
5. Underfloor/Basement Maintenance & Repair
4. Public & Service Area Modernization
6. Guestroom FF&E

Level of Seismicity (Low)
Level of Seismicity (Med or High)
Building Structure Element
Structural Sub-System
Seismic Performance Improvement
Purpose
Applicability (for Nonstructural improvement: applicable to all wood, Masonry, 
concrete, or steel buildings except as noted. For Structural improvements: 
applicable to all buildings (wood, masonry, concrete, and steel) with wood 
diaphragms (floor), except as noted.