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Project Title: Building Technical Capacity in Central Asia to Design Risk-Informed Public Infrastructure Investments at Scale

Client: World Bank

Purpose: To provide technical support to World Bank’s safer school initiatives in Central Asia.

Resources for Performance-Based Assessment and Nonlinear Analysis for World-Bank ATC-148 Project, Building Technical Capacity in Central Asia to Design Risk-Informed Public Infrastructure Investments at Scale

This project produced the following report: 

ATC-148, Methodology for Developing Efficient Investment Strategies for Safer and Resilient Schools

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Project Title: Computational Models for Large Outdoor Fires Roadmap Workshop

Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Purpose: To conduct a technical solutions workshop for modeling large outdoor fires and prepare a research needs report.

This project produced the Large Outdoor Fire Modeling 2019 Workshop Summary Report.

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Project Title: Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States Designed for Controlling Wind Loads to Evaluate their Seismic Performance

Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to document structural designs to enable research studies on seismic performance of buildings when the controlling design load is from wind effects.  Designs were developed for: (1) a 12-story office building in Savannah, Georgia; (2) a 7-story healthcare building in Long Island, New York; and (3) a 3-story education building in St. Louis, Missouri.  Buildings were designed with older and current building codes for the specified locations within the Central and Eastern United States by engineers serving as consultants to ATC. The project resulted in publication of NIST GCR 21-917-48 in six volumes:

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NIST 21-917-48, Seismic Design of Archetype Steel Buildings in Central and Eastern United States

NIST 21-917-48v1A, Volume 1A: 12-story Office Building in Savannah, Georgia Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v1B, Volume 1B: 12-story Office Building in Savannah, Georgia Supplementary Documentation
NIST 21-917-48v2A, Volume 2A: 12-story Office Building in Long Island, New York Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v2B, Volume 2B: 12-story Office Building in Long Island, New York Supplementary Documentation
NIST 21-917-48v3A, Volume 3A: 12-story Office Building in St. Louis, Missouri Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v3B, Volume 3B: 12-story Office Building in St. Louis, Missouri Supplementary Documentation

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Project Title: Update of General Guidelines for the Assessment and Repair of Earthquake Damage in Residential Woodframe Buildings and Development of Additional Engineering Guidelines

Client: California Earthquake Authority

Purpose: To update the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) Publication No. EDA-02, General Guidelines for the Assessment and Repair of Damage in Residential Woodframe Buildings, and to complete the initial draft of CUREE Publication No. EDA-06, Engineering Guidelines for the Assessment and Repair of Earthquake Damage in Residential Woodframe Buildings.

Overview: This project produced the CEA-EDA-01 report, Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Guidelines for Residential Wood-Frame Buildings, Volume 1 – General Guidelines, and the CEA-EDA-02 report, Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Guidelines for Residential Wood-Frame Buildings, Volume 2 – Engineering Guidelines. 

The Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Guidelines for Residential Wood-Frame Buildings describe the process of identifying, evaluating, and repairing common earthquake damage in typical residential wood-frame houses and are intended to increase the efficiency, consistency, and reliability of the earthquake damage assessment and repair process.  The documents are an integrated two-volume series that cover common earthquake damage, including cosmetic and structurally significant damage, as well as earthquake-induced permanent ground deformation.

Volume 1 (CEA-EDA-01) is intended to be used by insurance claim representatives, building contractors, homeowners, and others familiar with construction and repair. Volume 2 (CEA-EDA-02) is intended to be used by structural and geotechnical engineers, and others with relevant technical experience. The Guidelines help users create a conceptual scope of repair for a wood-frame house damaged by an earthquake.

The documents build and expand upon previous work conducted through the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), which led to the publication of two documents for the assessment and repair of earthquake-damaged residential wood-frame buildings. These documents, commonly referred to as the CUREE Guidelines, have now been superseded by the two-volume series, Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Guidelines for Residential Wood-Frame Buildings.

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 Welcome to the ATC Team!

Valley Mike cropMichael Valley As a former Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates in Seattle, Mike Valley 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.

Michael Mahoney
Michael Mahoney

Retired from federal service as a Senior Geophysicist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mike Mahoney 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.