Examples of good buildings include the district headquarters in American Fork and American Fork High School's student commons, wrestling and band rooms and 2005 classroom additions. Eagle Valley Elementary also received a good rating.

Fair-rated buildings would receive some structural damage. They have some falling hazards, but there's little chance of the building crumbling and causing a death during a quake.

Ninety-five buildings received a fair rating.

All the buildings that make up Mountain View High got fair seismic performance ratings — except for the wrestling room addition, which received a good rating.

Moran, Reaveley's reviewing engineer of Alpine buildings, said that some of the buildings with fair ratings could be upgraded to good with further study.

Some of the fair-rated buildings were constructed in the late 1990s to standards of the International Building Code that are now considered outdated.

The current IBC in use was developed in 2006.

But the standards may not necessarily make such buildings unsafe.

"There are ones that are fair and (are) expected to perform as well as good or very good," Moran said. "But there's a big jump between fair and a lower grade than that."

Beginning this year, the seismic retrofitting projects have been incorporated into the district's 5-year-building plan, which identifies the buildings and parts of buildings that need improvement.

"We'll start chipping away at that in our capital budget," Alpine Superintendent Vern Henshaw said.

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