Albay has zero casualty goals on every disaster that comes its way. Along with this, it is important that elementary schools, especially those schools that served as evacuation centers, receive and act upon the timely delivery of a warning system and make their school buildings as safe as possible. The main objective of the study was to design and develop the rapid damage assessment system for public elementary school buildings of Albay, Philippines. Specifically, it achieved the following: (1) identify the current procedures in conducting rapid damage assessment in public elementary school buildings of Albay; (2) determine the design features of the proposed rapid damage assessment system; and (3) generate appropriate report formats to represent the rapid damage assessment information. Rational Unified Process methodology phases and disciplines were used to design and develop the proposed system. Data were gathered through key informant interview and document analysis that covers Albay Province with four school divisions and 602 public elementary schools. The study is an efficient rapid damage assessment tool capable of processing and extracting information from the database and locates the public elementary school buildings of Albay through geographical information system support. It gathers information on school building damages, saves and views the data in real time, generates a report from the data collected, and provides quick and accurate information to the Department of Education officials to enable them to determine the type and extent of damages to the school building. Findings show that this new technique of assessing school damages is fast and efficient. The main advantage is the quickness and automation of the procedure. An evaluation study was also conducted to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed damage assessment system and found that the system was effective, reliable, useful, and efficient to the end users.

Chapter Contents:

• 9.1 Background of the study
• 9.1.1 Hyogo Framework for Action for 2005–15
• 9.1.2 Damage assessment
• 9.1.3 Geographic information system
• 9.1.4 The Philippine Disaster Management System [2]
• 9.1.5 Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office [2]
• 9.1.6 School Evacuation Center
• 9.1.7 Elementary schools of Albay Province
• 9.1.8 Importance of the study
• 9.1.9 Objectives of the study
• 9.2 Methodology
• 9.2.1 Scope and limitation
• 9.2.2 Sources of data
• 9.3 Results and discussion
• 9.3.1 Rapid damage assessment current procedures
• 9.3.2 System design
• 9.3.3 Physical design
• 9.3.4 Rapid damage assessment system features
• 9.3.5 Rapid damage assessment system report formats
• 9.3.6 System evaluation
• 9.4 Conclusions
• References

Inspec keywords: alarm systems; buildings (structures); design engineering; condition monitoring; structural engineering computing; geographic information systems

Other keywords: school damage assessment; information processing; rapid damage assessment tool; rapid damage assessment system; data collection; Albay elementary schools; information extraction; design features; document analysis; evaluation study; evacuation centers; public elementary school buildings; damage assessment information; geographical information system support; Philippines; warning system; rational unified process methodology phases

Subjects: Civil and mechanical engineering computing; Mechanical engineering applications of IT; Maintenance and reliability; Inspection and quality control; Design; Building structures; Geography and cartography computing