Recent seismic events have shown that buildings can incur large losses in terms of damage, death/injury, and downtime despite experiencing limited structural damage. Examples are shown in the Figure 1. It is clear that the next advancement in seismic engineering is to limit these losses. One framework which enables this to be done in practice follows the Loss Optimization Seismic Design framework (LOSD). To use this framework, weighting factors to estimate the contribution of structural, non-structural drift-sensitive, and non-structural acceleration-sensitive components to the overall construction cost for a given storey level (WS, WNS,DS, WNS,AS, respectively) for different building typologies are required as shown in Figure 2. This study aims to develop these weighting factors for typical building typologies present in New Zealand

Acceleration-Sensitive Components; Building Typologies; Construction Cost; Damage; Death/Injury; Downtime; Drift-Sensitive Components; Loss Optimization Seismic Design Framework (Losd); Losses; Non-Structural Components; Seismic Engineering; Structural Damage; Weighting Factors.