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Project Title: Soil Structure Interaction Design Guide

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Purpose: Soil-structure interaction (SSI) can make a substantial difference in how buildings behave during earthquake shaking and how they should be designed, and ASCE/SEI 7-16 and in ASCE/SEI 41-17 include provisions that can be used to address SSI. This project developed FEMA P-2091, A Practical Guide to Soil-Structure Interaction,  presenting information regarding SSI as implemented in code provisions but in an easy-to-understand, concise format targeted toward practicing engineers to help them determine when SSI effects are of importance and show them examples of how to implement them in design.

This project produced the following report:

FEMA P-2091, A Practical Guide to Soil-Structure Interaction

 

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Project Title: Seismic Performance-Based Assessment of School Infrastructure in the Kyrgyz Republic

Client: World Bank

Purpose: To provide technical support in the prioritization process and definition of intervention strategy to reduce the seismic vulnerability of school infrastructure in the Kyrgyz Republic. The intervention strategy will be supported by results of targeted field inspections, and analytical work on seismic performance of school infrastructure in the Kyrgyz Republic. Specifically, this project will: (1) identify and characterize common structural typologies of school infrastructure in the country; (2) identify optimal strategies to improve the seismic performance of the common structural typologies; and (3) inform prioritization of schools to be intervened under the World Bank’s “Enhancing Resilience in Kyrgyzstan (ERIK)” project.

This project produced the ATC-142 report, Safety Prioritization of School Buildings for Seismic Retrofit using Performance-Based Risk Assessment in the Kyrgyz Republic

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Project Title: Update of Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings Guidance

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To investigate and address technical issues regarding the evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings and develop material for the expanded FEMA design applications document that will replace the current FEMA 275 Design Examples document.

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Project Title: Support of Performance-Based Seismic Design of Buildings

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Purpose: To develop materials necessary to encourage and assist in the use of performance-based seismic design products and tools developed under previous phases of the ATC-58 series of projects.

The ATC-138 project is developing a methodology to assess functional recovery using the FEMA P-58 methodology. For the latest information click here

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REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Tuesday, September 25, 2018
9:00am – 1:00pm
Registration Fee. Free
Registration.  REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED DUE TO OVERWHELMING INTEREST IN THIS EVENT. The event capacity is limited to 50 participants and registration is required.

Location. 
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
100 Pine Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94111 

Purpose. This training will present new tools and guidance for performance-based seismic design, developed under the second phase of the FEMA P-58 project.  This methodology was first published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2012, along with an implementation tool for seismic performance assessment of buildings.  The follow-on project, conducted by the Applied Technology Council with funding from FEMA, developed guidance on performance of code-conforming buildings and seismic design of new buildings, as well as improvements to existing tools, incorporating environmental considerations related to seismic performance of buildings. This training seminar will provide an overview of the newly available tools and guidance.

Presenters.
Ronald O. Hamburger, Project Technical Director for the ATC-58 Project Series – Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, San Francisco, California
Jon A. Heintz, ATC-58 Project Executive – Applied Technology Council, Redwood City, California
John D. Hooper, member of the ATC-58-2 Project Management Committee and Leader of the Products Update Team – Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle, Washington
Vesna Terzic, member of the ATC-58-2 Performance Products Team – California State University Long Beach

Registration Information. The event capacity for this free event is limited to 50 participants and registration is required. Please note that the event capacity is limited to 50 and your registration is not final until you receive a confirmation email.  REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED DUE TO OVERWHELMING INTEREST IN THIS EVENT.

Notes.

  • Participation is limited to in-person attendance only.
  • The material covered is a repeat of the training conducted on June 25th, 2018, in conjunction with the 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles.
  • Training materials will be provided at the location.
  • Box lunches will be provided at the conclusion of the seminar.

Questions. If you have any questions about FEMA P-58 trainings, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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 Welcome to the ATC Team!

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

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