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Classifying building failure by cause

New approach to identifying the causes of building failure avoiding involvement with issues of blame

Pages 350-356 | Published online: 08 May 2007
 

Abstract

Bill Porteous argues that it is by discovering the causes of failure that progress may be made in reducing or controlling the incidence of building failures in the future — the paper proposes a way to describe the causes so that any failure event can be classified by cause.

C'est en mettant en lumière les causes de ruine, affirme Bill Porteous, qu'il sera possible, à l'avenir, de réduire ou de contrôler la fréquence des ruines d'immeubles. Cette communication propose une méthode permettant de décrire les causes, afin que toute ruine puisse être classée par cause.

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