Collaborative Research: Regulatory Pragmatism and Building Codes for Hazard-Resilient Housing

合作研究：防灾住房的监管实用主义和建筑规范

• 批准号: 2207295
• 负责人: Abbie Liel
• 金额: $ 27.67万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2207295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Regulatory; Pragmatism; Building

Few aspects of life are more important to people than their homes. Building codes are a major form of regulation and one of the primary mechanisms by which states and societies try to make their homes safe in the face of hazards like hurricanes and earthquakes. This project advances the science needed to understand and improve compliance with key hazard-resistant practices in the design and construction of housing. It approaches this challenge using the concept of regulatory pragmatism, which argues that improving housing stock resilience and reducing disaster impacts for housing may necessitate prioritizing those aspects of the building code that allow builders to most cheaply and effectively reach these goals. Through engineering assessment, combined with interviews and surveys of builders and residents, this project is collecting the data necessary to design useful interventions to increase code compliance with key hazard-resistant building practices and, in so doing, protect human life and the built environment from the effects of a disaster. Despite the fact that building codes touch the lives of many, there is little research studying how regulatory strategies and sound engineering can together reduce disaster risk.Project work aims to examine compliance with key hazard-resistant building practices among builders and households, and explore the factors that influence compliance, including household and builder attitudes and experiences, local regulations, perceived and real costs, and local building practices. Crucially, in parallel, the project will use performance-based engineering methods to quantify the benefits and risks associated with complying with hazard-resistant building practices in terms of housing safety and post-event housing occupancy. These findings will be used to identify and prioritize key building practices based on their effectiveness in reducing disaster risk and their achievability (e.g., in terms of cost and compatibility with local building practices). Building on initial findings, the project will then consider the design and assessment of a pragmatic, compliance-fostering intervention. The project is conducted in two multi-hazard U.S. contexts, Alaska and Puerto Rico, providing a most-different comparison to explore how building practices, compliance, and intervention outcomes differ based on community characteristics. It will also involve interdisciplinary training of students supporting the development of a workforce trained to address regulatory and engineering challenges associated with disaster resilient housing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

对于人们来说，生活中没有什么比他们的家更重要的了。建筑规范是一种主要的监管形式，也是国家和社会在面临飓风和地震等灾害时试图确保家园安全的主要机制之一。该项目推进了理解和提高住房设计和施工中关键抗灾实践的合规性所需的科学。它使用监管实用主义的概念来应对这一挑战，该概念认为，提高住房存量的弹性和减少灾害对住房的影响可能需要优先考虑建筑规范中允许建筑商以最便宜、最有效的方式实现这些目标的那些方面。通过工程评估，结合对建筑商和居民的访谈和调查，该项目正在收集设计有用干预措施所需的数据，以提高对关键抗灾建筑实践的规范合规性，从而保护人类生命和建筑环境免受灾难的影响。尽管建筑规范涉及许多人的生活，但很少有研究研究监管策略和健全的工程如何共同减少灾害风险。项目工作旨在检查建筑商和家庭对关键抗灾建筑实践的遵守情况，并探讨影响合规性的因素，包括家庭和建筑商的态度和经验、当地法规、感知和实际成本以及当地建筑实践。至关重要的是，与此同时，该项目将使用基于性能的工程方法来量化与在住房安全和事后住房占用方面遵守抗危险建筑实践相关的收益和风险。这些发现将用于根据其减少灾害风险的有效性及其可实现性（例如，在成本和与当地建筑实践的兼容性方面）来确定关键建筑实践并确定其优先顺序。根据初步调查结果，该项目将考虑设计和评估务实、促进合规的干预措施。该项目在美国两个多灾种地区（阿拉斯加和波多黎各）进行，提供了最不同的比较，以探索建筑实践、合规性和干预结果如何根据社区特征而有所不同。它还将涉及对学生的跨学科培训，支持培养一支经过培训的劳动力队伍，以解决与抗灾住房相关的监管和工程挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。