Guidelines for Seismic Upgrading of Public School Buildings in Taiwan

Guidelines for Seismic Upgrading of Public School Buildings in Taiwan

The Ministry of Education in Taiwan promotes the project regarding the renovation or rebuilding of elementary school, junior high school, state high school and vocational high school buildings and facilities from 2009 to 2012. The project, contracted by the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering(NCREE), includes four-stage strategy for screening with existing school buildings, which are seismic preliminary evaluation, detailed evaluation, retrofit design and retrofit implementation. In order to promote this project successfully, NCREE proposes a series of guidelines for stages of seismic detailed evaluation, retrofit design and retrofit implementation. Three guidelines, namely, “Guideline of Detailed Seismic Evaluation for Public School Buildings”, “Guideline of Seismic Retrofit Design for Public School Buildings”, and “Guideline of Retrofit Construction Supervision for Public School Buildings” are discussed in this report. Possible problems of concern posted by school administrators were also collected and are detailed in this report in modifying the proposed standards in the future.