seattlemike
Structural
- Oct 23, 2004
- 79
Hello fellow Structural Engineers,
Has anyone done research on the costs of Base Isolation of buildings? With the savings of reducing base shears by a factor of 3x or 10x, or the idea of keeping the remainder of the building elastic, I was wondering if there could be an overall savings in cost?
I know that base isolation definitely has cost saving over other systems trying to produce the same level of performance.
Thank you,
Mike in Seattle
Has anyone done research on the costs of Base Isolation of buildings? With the savings of reducing base shears by a factor of 3x or 10x, or the idea of keeping the remainder of the building elastic, I was wondering if there could be an overall savings in cost?
I know that base isolation definitely has cost saving over other systems trying to produce the same level of performance.
Thank you,
Mike in Seattle