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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Development of Next Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedures for New and Existing Buildings

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Status: Ongoing phase commenced September 2006. Previous phase (ATC-58 Project) commenced 2001 and completed in 2007.

Participants: To see a list of project participants, click here . In addition, a Solicitation of Participants will remain active throughout the duration of the project.

Interim Products:

- ATC-58-1 75% Draft Guidelines for Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings Volume 1 - Methodology (file is ~15 Mb) - ATC-58-1 75% Draft Guidelines for Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings Volume 2 - Implementation Guide (file is ~5 Mb) - ATC-58 50% Draft Guidelines for Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings - FEMA 445 Report, Next-Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines (fi le is ~8.7 Mb) - FEMA 461 Report, Interim Testing Protocols for Determining the Seismic Performance Characteristics of Structural and Nonstructural Components (file is ~ 7Mb) - ATC-58-1 Report, Proceedings of FEMA-Sponsored Workshop on Communicating Earthquake Risk , which was held on June 18, 2002 in Chicago,

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Illinois (file is ~69 Mb) - ATC 58-2 Report, Preliminary Evaluation of Methods for Defining Performance. - Task Reports summarizing interim results from various project-related work efforts. - Technical Papers relating to the project that were presented at recent seminars and conferences - Proceedings: Mini-Workshop/Invited Meeting on the Identification of Nonstructural Components of Significance (file is ~3.5Mb)

Related Projects and Reports: The George E. Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) research program of the National Science Foundation funds the Grand Challenge project studying the seismic performance of ceiling-piping-partition nonstructural systems.

PROJECT SUMMARY

The Applied Technology Council (ATC) is under contract to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to perform a project to develop Next Generation Performance-based Seismic Design Guidelines. The purpose of the project is to develop a series of resource documents that define procedures that can be used to reliably and economically design new buildings or upgrade existing buildings to attain desired performance goals, and to assist stakeholders in selecting appropriate design performance goals for individual buildings. The project includes the establishment of a methodology for predicting the earthquake performance of buildings characterized in terms of probable life loss, repair costs and time out of service resulting from earthquake effects, expressed in a variety of formats useful to different stakeholders and decision makers. The ultimate goals of performance-based design are the development of practical design criteria that give the building owner and regulator the ability to select a building's desired performance capability as well as to optimize the performance of code-designed buildings, relative to societys needs. While the project is funded under seismic programs, the intent is that the technologies developed in this program will be directly relevant and applicable to other extreme events, such as blast, fire and tornadic winds. Work on Phase 1 of the project, which commenced in October 2001, focused on a review and updating of

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