Instructions overview on the regional scale analysis of school buildings in puglia (italy)

Thanks to a specific fund provided by AdP-Puglia, a research study has been developed by the Department DIAC of Politecnico di Bari, drawing up a volume of "Guidelines for the seismic assessment of strategic RC and masonry buildings" addressed to the professionals in charge with the assessment procedures. In the present paper shows the results of the seismic vulnerability assessment carried out on same school buildings located in the Province of Foggia (Italy). The analysis following the protocol of investigation and verification contained in the Guidelines were carried out. The paper shows, through the simple statistical representation as the whole sample analyzed can be identified by some features related to a typology sample. The statistical representation of the data collected from the seismic assessment shows that the buildings analyzed are all referable at predominant typology having common characteristics to all buildings. The materials, age and structural regularity are just some of the parameters taken into account, and these show the degradation prevailing of the building heritage of the territory well as the deficiency in regard to seismic actions. In particular, the seismic vulnerability has been quantified by a specific vulnerability coefficient (SVC). The value taken on the coefficient allows to identify the most critical areas of the territory and consequently to draw up priority scales in the preparing of projects and in the choice of seismic retrofitting interventions.