Decision Tree Analysis Of Processes Generating Water-Related Building Damage: A Case Study In Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Matthieu Spekkers; Francois Clemens; Marie-claire ten Veldhuis

Decision Tree Analysis Of Processes Generating Water-Related Building Damage: A Case Study In Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Matthieu Spekkers, Francois Clemens, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis

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The objective of this study was to identify the main failure mechanisms behind water-related building damage and to investigate to what extent these processes are related to characteristics of buildings and rainfall events. Results are based on the mining of property level insurance damage data, for a case study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This study has found that most frequent causes of water-related damage relate to roof leakages (28%), bursts of household water supply pipes (19%) and blocked household wastewater systems (18%). Cases of sewer flooding or depression filling were less present (2.4% and 0.6%), but showed stronger correlations with heavy rainfall events than any other failure mechanism. Classification tree analysis revealed that water discharges from neighbours is the main damage cause for high-rise buildings on days with no or minor rainfall (< 7.5 mm/h). Moreover, damage due to blocked household wastewater systems is associated with low-rise buildings younger than 50 years.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the HIC 2014 - 11th international conference on hydroinformatics
Editors	M Piasecki
Pages	849-855
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics - New York, United States Duration: 17 Aug 2014 → 21 Aug 2014 Conference number: 11 http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_conf_hic/

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Conference	11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Abbreviated title	HIC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	17/08/14 → 21/08/14
Internet address	http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_conf_hic/

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Spekkers, M, Clemens, F & ten Veldhuis, M 2014, Decision Tree Analysis Of Processes Generating Water-Related Building Damage: A Case Study In Rotterdam, The Netherlands. in M Piasecki (ed.), Proceedings of the HIC 2014 - 11th international conference on hydroinformatics. pp. 849-855, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, New York, United States, 17/08/14.

Decision Tree Analysis Of Processes Generating Water-Related Building Damage: A Case Study In Rotterdam, The Netherlands. / Spekkers, Matthieu; Clemens, Francois ; ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire.
Proceedings of the HIC 2014 - 11th international conference on hydroinformatics. ed. / M Piasecki. 2014. p. 849-855.

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