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KMID : 0948820120180030051
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Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture Journal
2012 Volume.18 No. 3 p.51 ~ p.60
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Toward Seismic Enhancement of Medical Facilities in Korea
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Kim Jang-Hoon
Kwon Soon-Jung
Lee Chung-Jae
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Abstract
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Over a past century, the continuity in post-earthquake serviceability of medical facilities has been demonstrated to be essential for sustaining a society and/or a nation stable. However, not many countries including Korea have paid appropriate attention to such a lesson learned from the previous experiences of the countries located in high seismicity for various reasons, one of which may be the lack of social consensus in allocating a portion of the resources to the earthquake preparedness. As a result, an earthquake-related policy might have been pushed away out of the list of priority in the government agenda. Therefore, the present paper attempts to persuade the public general, experts and government officials together to seek a way to upgrade the seismic safety of the country a step forward by enhancing the seismic performance of medical facilities. For this the framework of seismic design codes and standards for medical facilities, and Californian experience in managing the seismic performance enhancement program and U.S.-Italian collaborative study to improve the seismic safety of Italian hospitals are reviewed. Finally, a list of further researches and practices to perform for seismic enhancement of medical facilities in Korea are suggested.
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KEYWORD
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hospitals , medical facilities , structural components , non-structural components , seismic design , seismic retrofit
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