Repairability decisions based on simplified assessment procedures

After catastrophic seismic events, the definition of reconstruction process strategies is a cru-cial aspect to accelerate the recovery process. Decisions on repair, type of strengthening, or demolition andreconstruction of damaged buildingsare key choices to evaluate housing re-covery programs and financing process. In such context, the use of tools to define building reparability bythe estimation of expected performance loss (PL) and associatedcosts for re-pair as well as by means of simplified expressions to assess demolition probability as a func-tion of buildings main characteristics may strongly help decision makers for establishing reconstruction policies.The paperpresents an application for rapid evaluation of reparability or demolition for RC existing building typologiesin several municipalities of Irpinia area, Campania region, Italy. In particular, the inventory for RC building typologies is assembled starting from the infor-mation reportedin census returns integrated with the information provided by the interview-based Cartis form compiled for several municipalities in Campania. It allows gathering in-formation on a greater number of building featuresthat are relevant for the seismic behavior. The analysis allows evaluating the difference provided by a more detailed inventory for RC buildings in reparability decisions as well as, for a given earthquake scenario, defining the demolition probability and rough assessment ofexpected associated losses