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. To learn more, please visit the website of NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture.

To date, eleven 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

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
• Technical Brief No. 2 - Seismic Design of Steel Special Moment Frames: A Guide for Practicing Engineers

Task Order 4 (ATC-76-4 Project), Quantification of Building System Performance and Response Parameters

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

Task Order 6 (ATC-76-6 Project), Improved Nonlinear Static Seismic Analysis Procedures - Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling

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

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

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, Full-Scale Testing of Reinforced Concrete Subassemblies for Collapse Resistance