Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries

This work summarises the strategy adopted in the European research project PERSISTAH. It aims to increase the resilience of the population, focusing on the existing primary schools in the Algarve (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain) regions. Software was developed to assess the seismic safety of these schools, considering different earthquake scenarios. Seismic retrofitting measures were studied and numerically tested. Some of them were also implemented in the retrofitting activities of two case study schools (one in each country). It was found that the adopted ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) considerably affect the results obtained with the software, especially for offshore earthquake scenarios. Furthermore, the results show that the masonry buildings would be the most damaged school typologies for all the scenarios considered. Additionally, a set of guidelines was created to support the school community and the technicians related to the construction industry. The goal of these documents is to increase the seismic resilience of the population. Different activities were carried out to train schoolteachers in seismic safety based on the guidelines produced, obtaining positive feedback from them.
 
João M. C. Estêvão; Antonio Morales-Esteban; Luis F. Sá; Mónica A. Ferreira; Bruno Tomás; Carlos Esteves; Vítor Barreto; Ana Carreira; Alfredo Braga; Maria-Victoria Requena-Garcia-Cruz; Emilio Romero-Sanchez; Jaime de-Miguel-Rodriguez; Maria-Luisa Segovia-Verjel; Beatriz Zapico Blanco; Carlos Sousa Oliveira. "Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Primary Schools in the Border Regions of Neighbouring Countries". Sustainability 14 23 (2022): 15976. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142315976

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