Earthquakes are a serious threat to safety in hotel and motel
buildings and pose a significant potential liability to owners and
operators. Hotel and motel buildings in 39 states are vulnerable to
earthquake damage. Unsafe existing buildings expose hotel and motel
building owners, operators, and guests to the following risks:
Death and injury to guests, visitors, and staff; Damage to or
collapse of buildings; Damage to and loss of furnishings,
equipment, and other building contents; and Disruption of
hospitality functions and building operations. The greatest
earthquake risk is associated with existing hotel and motel
buildings that were designed and constructed before the use of
modern building codes. For many parts of the United States, this
includes buildings built as recently as the early 1990s. Although
vulnerable hotel and motel buildings should be replaced with safe,
new construction or rehabilitated to correct deficiencies, for many
building owners, new construction is limited, at times severely, by
budgetary constraints, and seismic rehabilitation is expensive and
disruptive. However, incremental seismic rehabilitation, an
innovative approach that phases in a series of discrete
rehabilitation actions over a period of several years, is an
effective, affordable, and non-disruptive strategy for responsible
mitigation action that can be integrated efficiently into ongoing
facility maintenance and capital improvement operations to minimize
cost and disruption. This manual and its companion documents are
the products of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
project to develop the concept of incremental seismic
rehabilitation-that is, building modifications that reduce seismic
risk by improving seismic performance and that are implemented over
an extended period, often in conjunction with other repair,
maintenance, or capital improvement activities. It provides
operators of hotels and motels and their owners, be they Real
Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), pension funds, partnerships,
individuals, or other forms of ownership, with the information
necessary to assess the seismic vulnerability of their buildings
and to implement a program of incremental seismic rehabilitation
for those buildings.
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