Summary
This publication serves as a technical resource for design professionals on the topic of incremental seismic rehabilitation and strategies for implementing this approach in practice. The publication includes discussions on several topics including building maintenance, capital improvement and decision-making processes as a basis for communicating with decision-makers on seismic rehabilitation opportunities. In addition, other resource documents for seismic rehabilitation are reviewed. FEMA P-420 is a companion manual to the Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation Publications (FEMA 395 and 396) targeted to engineers and design professionals.
