ATC Announces Immediate Availability of Proceedings from ATC-SEI 2nd Conference

NEWS RELEASE
January 01, 2016

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The Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers are pleased to announce the immediate availability of The ATC-SEI 2015 Proceedings, Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures.

This second conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures was organized by the Applied Technology Council and the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and held in December 10-12, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

The conference program was structured to provide a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of new information on the seismic evaluation and seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings and other structures, including case studies, new discoveries, innovative use of new technologies and materials, nonstructural component anchorage and bracing, implementation issues, needed improvements to existing standards and methods, and socio-economic issues.

The Conference Proceedings contain an indexed .pdf version of a majority of the papers and poster presentations given at the Conference. The ATC-SEI Conference Proceedings is available in electronic format only, and the CD-ROM can be obtained from the Applied Technology Council, 201 Redwood Shores Parkway, Suite 240, Redwood City, California 94065 (phone, 650-595-1542; fax, 650-593-2320) or the ATC Online Store. Price: $100.00 per CD-ROM (plus shipping and sales tax).

Welcome to the ATC Team!

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.

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.