2nd Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2CroCEE

Increasing energy efficiency of final energy consumption is very actual and important topic, in parallel with activities and measures worldwide targeting increased share of renewable energy sources. Despite recent expansion in building construction, old buildings characterized by high consumption of energy still represent a great majority of both residential and public building stock in many countries in the Balkan region. Being located in seismic-prone countries, such as Republic of North Macedonia, these old buildings are also characterized by high risk of partial or complete destruction during earthquakes. This imposes the need for mandatory screening at the outset of an energy efficiency programme, which will categorize buildings according to seismic risk, thus determine which buildings are suitable for energy efficiency investments. This paper presents how the methodology for high-level seismic screening, originally proposed in the World Bank’s Country Report (North Macedonia) is extended and customized by Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, IZIIS, Skopje to correspond to the country specificities, i.e. to be based on overall knowledge on aseismic design and construction practice in the country, detailed on-site inspection of each particular building, and to be carried out by structural engineers with appropriate knowledge and experience in earthquake engineering. Applying this extended and customized methodology, high-level seismic screening was performed in the Republic of North Macedonia for total number of 27 medical facilities, dominantly healthcare centres, as well as for 50 municipality buildings, (schools, kinder gardens and municipal buildings).