The Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) have formed NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture, a partnership of ATC and CUREE, in order to conduct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-funded National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Earthquake Structural and Engineering Research Contract, which was awarded in September 2007. 

Under this 5-year contract with an expected cumulative budget of $30 million, the NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture will conduct a broad problem-focused research, knowledge development, synthesis, and technology transfer program for NIST, lead federal agency for NEHRP. The purpose of the NIST contract is to develop a partnership with practitioners and research institutions that will be used to implement the program, which follows a “roadmap” prepared by ATC for NIST in 2003 and published in the ATC-57 Report, "The Missing Piece: Improving Seismic Design and Construction Practices."  To learn more, please visit the website of NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture.

To date, twenty-one task order projects have been awarded, which have been designated on this website as the following:

Task Order 1 (ATC-76-1 Project), Quantification of Building System Performance and Response Parameters - this task has been completed and produced the NIST GCR 10-817-8, Evaluation of the FEMA P-695 Methodology for Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors report.

Task Order 2 (ATC-76-2 Project), Development of Seismic Design Guidelenis for Port and Harbor Facilities - Phase I

Task Order 3 (ATC-76-3 Project), Development of Technical Briefs on Structural Design Issues -

• Technical Brief No. 1 - Steel and Reinforced Concrete Special Moment Frames: A Guide for Practicing Engineers - this task has been completed
• Technical Brief No. 2 - Seismic Design of Steel Special Moment Frames: A Guide for Practicing Engineers - this task has been completed

Task Order 4 (ATC-76-4 Project), Quantification of Building System Performance and Response Parameters - this task has been completed (see Task Order 1)

Task Order 5 (ATC-76-5 Project), Integration of Collapse Risk Mitigation Standards and Guidelines for Older Reinforced Concrete Buildings into National Standards - Phase I - this task has been completed and produced the NIST GCR 10-917-7, Program Plan for the Development of Collapse Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings, report.

Task Order 6 (ATC-76-6 Project), Improved Nonlinear Static Seismic Analysis Procedures - Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling - this task has been completed and produced the NIST GCR 10-917-9, Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design, report.

Task Order 7 (ATC-76-7 Project), Development of Technical Brief on Structural Design Issues - Reinforced Concrete Diaphragm Systems - this task has been completed

Task Order 8 (ATC-76-8 Project), Development of Technical Brief on Structural Design Issues - Guidelines for Performing Nonlinear Structural Analysis - this task has been completed

Task Order 9 (ATC-82 Project), Improved Procedures for Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Time-History Analyses

Task Order 10 (ATC-83 Project), Improved Procedures for Characterizing and Modeling Soil-Structure Interaction for Performance-Based Seismic Engineering

Task Order 11 (ATC-84 Project), Improved Structural Response Modification Factors for Seismic Design of New Buildings - Phase I

Task Order 12 (ATC-85 Project), Assessment of ASCE 41 First Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Methods for New Buildings in High Seismic Regions - Phases I-III

Task Order 13 (ATC-76-9 Project), Full-Scale Testing of Reinforced Concrete Subassemblies for Collapse Resistance

Task Order 14 (ATC-87 Project), Development of Technical Brief on Structural Design Issues - Composite Steel Deck Diaphragm Systems

Task Order 15 (ATC-88 Project), Development of Technical Brief on Structural Design Issues - Special Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls

Task Order 16 (ATC-89 Project), Cost-Benefit Analysis of Codes and Standards for Earthquake-Resistant Construction in Selected U.S. Regions - Phase I

Task Order 17 (ATC-90 Project), Seismic Behavior and Design of Deep, Slender Wide-Flange Structural Steel Beam-Column Members Phase I

Task Order 18 (ATC-91 Project), Assessment of Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Structures Based on Modal Superposition

Task Order 19 (ATC-92 Project), Comparison of Present Chilean and U.S. Model Building Code Seismic Provisions and Seismic Design Practices

Task Order 20 (ATC-93 Project), Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake

Task Order 21 (ATC-94 Project), Analysis of Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in the 2010 Chile Earthquake, Including Effects of Non-Seismic-Force-Resisting Building Structural Elements

Task Order 22 (ATC-95 Project), Development of a Collapse Indicator Methodology for Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Task Order 23 (ATC-96 Project), Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation for Performance-Based Seismic Engineering

Task Order 24 (ATC-97 Project), Development of Technical Brief on Structural Design Issues – Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Mat Foundations

Task Order 25 (ATC-98 Project), Use of High-Strength Flexural Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Seismic Design

Task Order 26 (ATC-100 Project), Preparation of a Research and Development Roadmap for NIST’s Windstorm and Coastal Inundation Impact Reduction Program