Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)

Developers Completing Analysis Software for Capital Improvement Decisions

The Earthquake Engineering Research Center MCEER, an ERC based at the University at Buffalo, is nearing completion of a software package to aid in hospital capital improvement decisions.

The software, called Rehabilitation Decision Analysis Toolbox (RDAT), is designed for use by the board of directors of acute care facilities to decide which capital improvements would most effectively make the facility more hazard-resistant.

The program analyzes a wealth of data about potential hazards; properties of geotechnical, structural, and nonstructural systems; performance criteria; rehabilitation strategies; retrofit and repair costs; potential loss of use and life from hazards; and the potential monetary benefits of a retrofit.

RDAT rates distinct rehabilitation strategies for structural and nonstructural systems using estimates of life cycle losses, thus giving hospital boards a basis for selecting the optimal rehabilitation strategy. The RDAT output is being made compatible with STRATACAP, a widely used software for capital allocation decision analysis that is available from the MCEER User's Network.

To learn more about this topic:
Visit the MCEER User's Network at http://civil.eng.buffalo.edu/users_ntwk/index.htm.

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Software program Rehabilitation Decision Analysis
Toolbox will help hospital boards make difficult
decisions about where to spend limited resources
on capital improvements.

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Last modified: April 11, 2007