Introduction
Essential facilities, such as hospitals, emergency communications centers, and fire stations, are intended to provide an essential service immediately following an earthquake, and thus, a key criterion in their design that distinguishes these facilities from ordinary occupancy construction is the protection of their functionality. The hospital should continue to provide medical care; the dispatching of emergency vehicles should continue without an interruption caused by damage to a communications facility; and fire stations should be able to respond to the need for fire fighting, search and rescue, and hazardous materials releases. There are also nongovernmental facilities whose services or products are so valuable to a company that functionality is protected with on-site structural and nonstructural measures discussed here. Multi-facility organization-wide or corporate-wide planning has also been employed so that redundant facilities are sited so that they are not all in...
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Holmes, W.T., Reitherman, R.K. (2014). Earthquake Protection of Essential Facilities. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_397-1
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