Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Functionality for Weather Hazards.
Published in Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
It is estimated that in the United States, people spend 90% of their time in buildings. In order to ensure quality of life for communities, we propose a human-centric design approach to building "functionality." "Functionality" is defined as the set of "essential services" to meet occupant needs for safety and well-being. These services include lig...