International Exercise on Post-earthquake Damage Assessment STEP Project Strategies and Tools for Early Post-Earthquake Assessment International Exercise on Post-earthquake Damage Assessment Aims of the Bovec Exercise Agostino Goretti Seismic Risk Office, DPC Ljubljana, September 24-27, 2008
Assessment in STEP - Standard, qualitative, visual assessment for most of the buildings - Advanced, quantitative, assessment for strategic buildings, based on in situ measurements and numerical models
Exercise Participants Observers Damage and safety assessment of damaged buildings Participants 12 countries Albania, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Makedonia, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Observers UK, JRC-EU
Aims of the exercise Check if the system works in terms of: Advanced assessment Mobile unit Effectiveness of measurements Effectiveness of calculations Data transfer Standard assessment Form Use of IT Data transfer
Aims of the exercise Usefulness of the advanced assessment in emergency Evaluate the possibility of international cooperation in this field A further step towards a possible European harmonisation
Expected results A fully integration of the standard and advanced assessment A comparison between the results of the standard and the advanced assessment Reliability of the estimate in the standard assessment Feedback on procedure and form Effectiveness of cooperation between countries
Like all the exercises, it is not a real situation It is an exercise Like all the exercises, it is not a real situation We tried to make it as real as possible .... ......behave as if it were real