Investigation on the contribution of reinforced concrete (RC) structural wall damage in the total seismic loss for a building is presented here. Generalized loss functions for the structural walls are developed to present the expected seis mic loss at different inter-storey drift (IDR) levels. The generic loss functions are derived by combining appropriate fragility functions, costs of repair and quantity distribution of the structural walls used in typical RC multi-storey buildings in New Zealand. The methodology of loss estimation is extension of the existing methodology developed at the Pacific Earthquake engineering Research (PEER) centre. Extensive construction data collection was carried out to obtain the distri bution of the amount of walls and the repair/replacement costs corresponding to different damage states of the wall. The study shows that the structural walls can contribute up to NZ$ 73 per square meter of floor area, which is about 3% of total cost of the floor

Contribution; Damage States; Distribution; Floor Area; Fragility Functions; Loss Estimation; Multi-Storey Buildings; New Zealand; Quantity; Reinforced Concrete; Repair Costs; Seismic Loss; Structural Wall Damage; Total Cost; Inter-Storey Drift.