Data on Building Engineering Described by Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Development of Vulnerability Curves of Buildings To Windstorms Using Insurance Data: an Empirical Study In South Korea)

2021 FEB 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Engineering - Building Engineering have been published. According to news reporting originating in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Windstorms have caused a range of damage on the built environment. Although several risk assessment models for estimating such damage have been widely developed, the results generated by these models often turn inaccurate due to the building information required for such models at a regional scale are usually incomplete, or of a poor quality.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Alternatively, this study utilizes an insurance company’s loss data pertaining to the high winds of Typhoon Maemi in South Korea in 2003 for calculating building damage in terms of damage ratios. Next, these damage ratios and storm-wind speeds are utilized for constructing vulnerability curves that can be used to predict levels of damage to designated building types subject to given wind speeds. Lastly, geographical information systems spatial data is combined with those vulnerability curves to arrive at four distinct wind-damage levels.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “It is hoped that the present research will serve as a reference for further studies of developing building vulnerability curves for storm winds.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Development of Vulnerability Curves of Buildings To Windstorms Using Insurance Data: an Empirical Study In South Korea. Journal of Building Engineering, 2021;34:101932. Journal of Building Engineering can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hsi-Hsien Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dept. of Building and Real Estate, Kwoloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Sang-Guk Yum and Ji-Myong Kim.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101932. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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