1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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
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......behave as if it were real