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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS) Project

Client: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI)

Status: Completed in 2010

Final Products: Available through the ATC office and for download at the link below.

Potential Earthquake Impacts (ATC-52-1 Report), which focuses on estimating impacts to the City’s privately owned buildings in future earthquakes; and the companion Technical Documentation volume (ATC-52-1A Report), which contains descriptions of the technical analyses that were conducted to produce the impact estimates;

A Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (ATC-52-2 Report), which recommends policies to reduce earthquake risk in privately owned buildings of all types;

Earthquake Safety for Soft-Story Buildings (ATC-52-3 Report), which describes the risk of one vulnerable building type and recommends policies to reduce that risk, and the companion Documentation Appendices volume (ATC-52-3A Report), which details the technical methods and data used to develop the policy recommendations and related analyses; and

Post-earthquake Repair and Retrofit Requirements (ATC-52-4 Report), which recommends clarifications as to how owners should repair and strengthen their damaged buildings after an earthquake.

PROJECT SUMMARY

ATC-52-2 Project.  The Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS) project of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), carried out by ATC, was created to provide DBI and other City agencies and policymakers with a plan of action or policy road map to reduce earthquake risks in existing, privately-owned buildings that are regulated by the Department, and also to develop repair and rebuilding guidelines that will expedite recovery after an earthquake. Risk reduction activities will only be implemented and will only succeed if they make sense financially, culturally and politically, and are based on technically sound information. CAPSS engaged community leaders, earth scientists, social scientists, economists, tenants, building owners, and engineers to find out which mitigation approaches make sense in all of these ways and could, therefore, be good public policy.

Early phases of the CAPSS project, which commenced in 2000, involved planning and conducting an initial earthquake impacts study.  The final phase of work, which is described and documented in the report series, Here Today—Here Tomorrow: The Road to Earthquake Resilience in San Francisco, began in April of 2008 and was completed at the end of 2010.

Six CAPSS reports are available in the series, Here Today—Here Tomorrow: The Road to Earthquake Resilience in San Francisco:

  • Potential Earthquake Impacts (ATC-52-1 Report), which focuses on estimating impacts to the City’s privately owned buildings in future earthquakes; and the companion Technical Documentation volume (ATC-52-1A Report), which contains descriptions of the technical analyses that were conducted to produce the impact estimates;
  • A Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (ATC-52-2 Report), which recommends policies to reduce earthquake risk in privately owned buildings of all types;
  • Earthquake Safety for Soft-Story Buildings (ATC-52-3 Report), which describes the risk of one vulnerable building type and recommends policies to reduce that risk, and the companion Documentation Appendices volume (ATC-52-3A Report), which details the technical methods and data used to develop the policy recommendations and related analyses; and
  • Post-earthquake Repair and Retrofit Requirements (ATC-52-4 Report), which recommends clarifications as to how owners should repair and strengthen their damaged buildings after an earthquake.

All six reports and other information about the CAPSS project are available here.

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 Welcome to the ATC Team!

Valley Mike cropMichael 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
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.