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Project Title: ATC Hazards by Location Website for Geographic-Based Design Parameters

Client: ATC Endowment Fund

Purpose: To update and enhance the ATC windspeed and ground snow load websites, and to add additional functionality related to other hazards, including tornado, earthquake, flood, hurricane, ice, and tsunami.

Website: https://hazards.atcouncil.org/

API: https://hazards.atcouncil.org/api

Sponsorship: This website was initially funded by the ATC Endowment Fund because of its importance to practicing professionals. We encourage you to help sponsor the site by making a donation to the ATC Endowment Fund to defray the initial website development cost and the cost of ongoing maintenance.

Project Title: Improving Seismic Design of New Buildings

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: Part 1: to quantify and validate the seismic performance of buildings in very high seismic risk regions, to identify weaknesses in current code provisions and design practices for these buildings, and to provide recommendations for any necessary code modifications and improvements to design practices. Part 2: to complete the update of the FEMA P-1026 technical guidance document by incorporating new information on metal deck diaphragms and improvements developed by the 2020 NEHRP Provisions Update Committee Issue Team 9.

Project Title: Research Plan for the Study of Pre-Northridge Earthquake Weak Panel Zones in Welded Column Splices with PJP Groove Welds

Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Purpose: To develop a comprehensive, concise long-range program plan to research the seismic behavior of pre-Northridge weak panel zones and welded column splices in steel frames.

Project Title: Developing a Framework for Design of Lifeline Infrastructure Systems for Functional Recovery

Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Purpose: To prepare a NIST report that presents a framework to enable decision making for functional recovery of water, wastewater, and electric power lifeline systems after earthquake events.

Project Title: Seismic Safety Consulting Services for City of San Francisco

Client: City and County of San Francisco

Purpose: Provide technical expertise in selected tasks from the from the Earthquake Safety Implementation Program’s 30-year work plan and San Francisco Tall Buildings Safety Strategy, including developing retrofit program materials for rigid-wall-flexible-diaphragm and non-ductile concrete structures.

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Welcome to the ATC Team!

Michael 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

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.