@article {bnh-1429,
	title = {Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood prone buildings - Preliminary Building Schema},
	number = {003},
	year = {2014},
	institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC},
	abstract = {<p>Within Australian communities there is a wide range of building types. These vary in many attributes that include floor area, number of storeys, age, architectural style, fit out quality, construction material types and the level of maintenance. For mitigation research it is necessary to take this range of building types and geometrics and discretise it into building classes or categories of similar, if not identical, vulnerability. This {\textquotedblleft}pigeon holing{\textquotedblright} strategy makes research on impact, risk and mitigation more tractable in that vulnerabilities can be assigned to each class with the reduced variability within the class captured in the uncertainty of the model. Available exposure information can also be mapped to the schema along with building types that can particularly benefit from retrofit interventions.</p><p>This report presents the preliminary building schema proposed for the Cost Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Flood Prone Buildings BNHCRC project. The report discusses the utility of a building schema and which building attributes are important for distinguishing between houses of different vulnerabilities in the Australian building stock.</p>},
	author = {Maqsood, T and Dale, K and Martin Wehner}
}
