ATC Announces the 2015 Champions of Earthquake Resilience Award Winners

2015 Champions of Earthquake Resilience Awards

The Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded the 2015 Champions of Earthquake Resilience Awards on December 11, 2015. The awards dinner was held at the Maritime Museum in San Francisco and was attended by 120 award winners, presenters, and guests. The ATC-SEI Award Winners were selected from a broad range of nominated projects and programs resulting from a “Call for Nominations” distributed to more than 50,000 structural engineering and earthquake hazard reduction professionals in the United States, Canada, and other countries. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and publicize innovative earthquake engineering programs and projects that have (or will have) substantial impact on public safety and property loss reduction.

The awards were given in three categories and the winners were announced at a press conference held in conjunction with the ATC-SEI 2nd Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures. The 2015 Champions of Earthquake Resilience Award winners (7 in total) include:

Category: Exceptional Public- and Private-Sector Research and Development (R&D) Programs
	Development of Guidance and Procedures for the Seismic Design of Tall Buildings Jointly Awarded to the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center        and Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council
	Development of FEMA P-58, Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings Methodology and Companion Performance Assessment Calculation Tool (PACT) Awarded to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Category: Extraordinary Innovation in Development of a Community Earthquake Safety Program
	Los Angeles Resilience by Design Program Awarded to the City of Los Angeles
	San Francisco Earthquake Safety Implementation Program Awarded to the City of San Francisco
Category: Extraordinary Innovation in Seismic Protection of Buildings and Lifelines
	Development of Performance-Based Seismic Retrofit Guidelines for Schools Awarded to the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, University of British Columbia’s Earthquake Engineering Research Facility, and the British Columbia Ministry of Education
	Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco Awarded to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and the Design and Construction Team
	San Francisco Water System Improvement Program Awarded to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Detailed citations for each award are provided here. For any questions, please contact the Applied Technology Council at (650) 595-1542 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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