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Project Title: Technical Assistance, Training and Product Development

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To develop and maintain educational courses on earthquake mitigation and related training materials, to deliver training courses/webinars on behalf of FEMA, and to participate in national conferences to share information about FEMA reports. This project also supports the development and update of FEMA technical and non-technical guidance products and management of the National Earthquake Technical Assistance Program (NETAP).

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-2055-1, Guidance for Accelerated Building Reoccupancy Programs

FEMA P-2055-2, Recommendations for Cordoning Earthquake-Damaged Buildings

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

FEMA P-807-1, Guidance and Recommendations for the Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Multi-Unit Wood-Frame Buildings with Weak First Stories

FEMA P-232, Homebuilders’ Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction

pdf FEMA P-2335(23.39 MB) , Guidelines for Post-Earthquake Repair and Retrofit of Buildings Based on Assessment of Performance-Critical Damage

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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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Project Title: Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Benchmarking of Existing Building Evaluation Methodologies

Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Project Duration:

Purpose: The primary objective of this report is to benchmark evaluation methodologies for existing reinforced concrete buildings and present recommendations for improvement of the seismic evaluation procedures of ASCE/SEI 41-17, Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings. For this purpose, calculated results from implementing evaluation procedures described in applicable methodologies are compared to data available for eight reinforced concrete structures subjected to ground motion shaking.

This project produced the following report:

NIST GCR 22-917-50, Benchmarking Evaluation Methodologies for Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Project Team:

Project Techncial Committee
Russell Berkowitz (Project Director)
Wassim Ghannoum
Insung Kim
Dawn Lehman
Abbie Liel
Laura Lowes
Adolfo Matamoros
Farzad Naeim
Rob Smith
John Wallace

Project Review Panel
Brian Kehoe
Santiago Pujol
Peter Somers
Daniel Zepeda

Working Group Members
Saman A. Abdullah
Tarbin Basnet
Travis Chrupalo
Alex Chu
Dustin Cook
Ariel Creagh
John A. Egan
Hamid Khodadadi
Kristijan Kolozvari
Ali Roufegarinejad
Andrew Sen

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Steven L. McCabe

Applied Technology Council
Jon A. Heintz
Ayse Hortacsu

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Project Title: Improving Seismic Design of New Buildings

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To support two ongoing efforts under two Contract Line Items (CLINS), as follows: (1) CLIN 1, Improving Seismic Design of New Buildings with Configuration Irregularities; and (2) CLIN 2, Improving the Alternate Rigid-Wall Flexible-Diaphragm Building Design Procedure. The work under CLIN 1 is a continuation of ATC-123-2 and covers Phase 4 of the ATC-123 project series. The purpose of CLIN 1 is to help complete the problem-focused study for evaluation and improvement of code and standard requirements for seismic design of buildings with configuration irregularities. The work under CLIN 2 is a continuation of ATC-135 and covers Phase 2 of that work. The purpose of CLIN 2 is to improve and update the alternate design procedure for Rigid Wall and Flexible Diaphragm (RWFD) buildings.

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Project Title: Seismic Safety and Engineering Consulting Services for the Earthquake Safety Implementation Program (ESIP), City and County of San Francisco

Client: City and County of San Francisco

Purpose: To provide technical expertise in completing selected tasks from the Earthquake Safety Implementation Program (ESIP) work plan that was developed under the CAPSS project (ATC- 119) and to conduct a study of tall buildings in San Francisco (ATC-119-1).

This project produced the following report: San Francisco Tall Buildings Study

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