PEER is leading an initiative to develop design criteria that will ensure safe and usable tall buildings following future earthquakes. The initiative is funding a range of short to intermediate-term projects over the next 24 months.
The greatest earthquake risk in the U.S. is from damage and collapse of older buildings designed with insufficient consideration of earthquake effects. This project identifies just how widespread the collapse hazard is in our existing building stock and develops engineering and policy tools to identify and reduce the risk of hazardous buildings. This project is part of the NEES Research Program.
The purpose of the PEER TRP is to reduce the impacts of earthquakes on California’s transportation systems, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high speed rail, and airports.
As non-linear response history analyses are becoming more prevalent in practice, there is a need to better understand how a certain suite of records affects the response results. This is why the Ground Motion Selection and Modification (GMSM) WorkGroup was created.
"PEER is the primary earthquake engineering research arm of the State of California."
California Seismic Safety Commission
"Review of the PEER Center,"
March 8, 2007
Latest News
- – Recon Team Discovers: Community Education and Evacuation Planning Saved Lives in Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami
- – AIR-Worldwide SF Office seeks Principal Engineer for Engineering Analysis and Research
- – New PEER Report Published: PEER 2009/02 - Improving Earthquake Mitigation through Innovations and Applications in Seismic Science, Engineering, Communication, and Response
- – National Science Foundation East Asia And Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students - 2010 Application Now Open
- – COSMOS Technical Session on Practical Application of the new ASCE 7-10 Required Procedures for Determining Site Specific Ground Motions
Upcoming Events
- November 6, 2009
- COSMOS Annual Meeting and Technical Session on Practical Application of the new ASCE 7-10 Required Procedures for Determining Site Specific Ground Motions - Millbrae, California
- November 5th & 12th, 2009
- SEAONC Seminar - Structural Steel Buildings from Inception to Completion - San Francisco, California
- December 9-11, 2009
- ATC & SEI Conference: Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures - San Francisco, California
- November 19th, 2009
- SMIP09 Seminar on Utilization of Strong-Motion Data - San Francisco, California
- March 3-5, 2010
- 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7th CUEE) and the 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5th ICEE) - Tokyo, Japan
- July 25-28, 2010
- 2010 US-CANADA Joint Conference on Earthquake Engineering - Toronto, Canada
- December 1-3, 2010
- 7th International Bridge Engineering Conference - Improving Reliability and Safety - Restoration, Renewal and Replacement - San Antonio, Texas