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About ATC

The Applied Technology Council (ATC) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation established in 1973 through the efforts of the Structural Engineers Association of California.  ATC's mission is to develop and promote state-of-the-art, user-friendly engineering resources and applications for use in mitigating the effects of natural and other hazards on the built environment.  ATC also identifies and encourages needed research and develops consensus opinions on structural engineering issues in a nonproprietary format.

Featured Project Reports and Seminar Proceedings

     
Recommendations for
Improved Seismic Performance
of Nonstructural Components		 Background and
Recommendations
for Future Work		 Reducing the Risks of
Nonstructural Earthquake
Damage– A Practical Guide

 

 
FEMA P-58 Series, Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings—Including Nonstructural Components

 

     
Performance of Buildings
and Nonstructural Components
in the 2014 South Napa Earthquake

 ATC-20-1, Field Manual:
Postearthquake Safety
Evaluation of Buildings
(Second Edition)		 Recommended US-Italy
Collaborative Guidelines for
Bracing and Anchoring Nonstructural
Components in Italian Hospitals (2014)
     
Proceedings of a Seminar and
Workshop on Seismic Design
and Performance of Equipment
and Nonstructural Elements in
Buildings and Industrial Structures (1992)		 Proceedings of Seminar on
Seismic Design, Retrofit,
and Performance of
Nonstructural Components
(1998)		 Proceedings: Seminar on
Seismic Design, Performance,
and Retrofit of Nonstructural
Components in Critical Facilities
(2003)

Available Training Courses

     
Reducing the Risks of
Nonstructural Earthquake Damage
– A Practical Guide		 Earthquake Mitigation
for Hospitals

 Home and Business
Earthquake Safety and Mitigation

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Project Title: Update of Seismic Retrofitting Guidance

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To develop a new FEMA support document that would provide design examples for seismic retrofit of specific buildings using the new ASCE/SEI 41-13 consensus standard. This new document replaces FEMA 276 Example Applications document.

This project produced the FEMA P-2006 report, Example Application Guide for ASCE/SEI 41-13 Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings; with Additional Commentary for ASCE/SEI 41-17.

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Project Title: Technical Training and Product Development

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To develop and maintain educational courses, related training materials, technical and non-technical guidance materials for earthquake mitigation, and conduct those training courses/webinars on behalf of FEMA. This project also supports the update of FEMA technical design guidance products, as needed, with a focus on course development, special projects, and national webinars. The project also has funding to deliver NETAP (ATC-66-10) trainings requested by states that exceed the ATC-66-10 budget, and the project will support the planning and delivery of a summit in Salt Lake City focused on unreinforced masonry.

This project has produced the following reports:

FEMA P-530, Earthquake Safety at Home

FEMA P-1024/RA2, South Napa Earthquake Recovery Advisory: Earthquake Strengthening of Cripple Walls in Wood-Frame Dwellings, Second Edition

FEMA P-1092, Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center Tall Buildings Initiative, Version 2.01

FEMA P-2055, Post-disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guidance –Report on the Current State of Practice, including Recommendations Related to Structural and Nonstructural Safety and Habitability

FEMA P-2090/ NIST SP-1254 Special Report, Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time

ATC-137-2, Proceedings: FEMA-Sponsored Summit on Unreinforced Masonry Buildings in Utah

 

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Project Title: Technical Monitoring of New and Existing Seismic Building Codes and Related Training

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To continue FEMA’s support of the model codes and consensus standards development processes, submit proposed changes to the model codes based on the most recent edition of the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and other FEMA publications, assist state and local code adoption efforts upon request, and to support other code-related activities such as outreach and education to ensure that seismic risk is adequately addressed at the State and local levels.

This project has produced the following reports:

FEMA P-1091, Recommended Simplified Provisions for Seismic Design Category B Buildings

FEMA P-2078, Procedures for Developing Multi-Period Response Spectra at Non-Conterminous United States Sites

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 Welcome to the ATC Team!

Valley Mike crop As a former Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates in Seattle, Mike comes to ATC with more than 30 years of structural engineering experience in new design, evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings, applied research, and codes and standards development. Mike’s design experience includes the landmark Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and his research and development experience includes the FEMA 356 Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, FEMA P-2012 Assessing Seismic Performance of Buildings with Configuration Irregularities (ATC-123 Project), and NIST GCR 10-917-9 Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design (ATC-76-6 Project).

Mike also has extensive experience as an ATC consultant serving as a reviewer, a technical contributor, and Project Director on multiple ATC projects. We look forward to how Mike’s unique experiences as a successful team member will contribute to ATC projects in the future.
Mahoney Mike crop

Retired from federal service as a Senior Geophysicist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mike comes to ATC with more than 30 years of experience in hazard mitigation program management and policy development, post-disaster response and recovery, and problem-focused research and development in support of FEMA’s efforts under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). He has led FEMA’s earthquake-related work with the International Code Council and has been involved with the development of national model codes and standards since 1984.

In his career at FEMA, Mike has led the development of countless major FEMA publications, including: FEMA 350 Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame Buildings and its series of companion reports (ATC-41 Project series), FEMA P-58 Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings, Methodology and Implementation (ATC-58 Project series), FEMA P-695 Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors (ATC-63 Project), FEMA P-2018 Seismic Evaluation of Older Concrete Buildings for Collapse Potential (ATC-78 Project), and FEMA P-2090/NIST SP-1254 Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time (ATC-137 Project). With Mike’s extensive knowledge of federal government programs, and past collaboration with state and local agencies, hazard mitigation partners, and code development organizations, we look forward to how his unique experiences will help serve ATC’s client needs and objectives in the future.