The relevance of the research is caused by technical complication of oil and gas complex objects, owing to the increase in the volumes and speed of extraction of raw materials, which may be affected by shock wave loads in abnormal situations. The causes of the impact may be explosions, heavy cargo drops, terrorist acts, natural and man­made disasters, etc. These situations with a high probability lead to significant damage to the building structures of industrial buildings. To ensure further functioning of the structure, it is necessary to design the building structures and the object as a whole that have survivability properties under non-stationary influence. Accounting for such properties should be analyzed in the construction of scenarios for the emergence and development of contingencies, as well as in the analysis of risks. Thus, the development of methods for assessing the survivability of building structures under shock-wave action is an urgent task. The main aim of the study is to develop a practically applicable method for assessing the survivability of a building structure under short-term shock wave loading based on an analysis of the energy parameter. The methods: measurement of accelerations, deflections and loads by tensometry methods, graph analysis method using Microsoft Excel software. The results. The authors have been developed the technique to assess the survivability of a building structure under shock wave loading, for responsible building structures of oil and gas facilities with the use of survivability coefficient. On the example of test of a reinforced concrete element for a short-term dynamic load, the values of the indicated coefficient were obtained. The authors made proposals for using the survivability coefficient in the design of building structures which may be affected by short-term dynamic loads.