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.
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
- – PEER hosts "roundtable discussion" with Leslie Robertson for students
- – New FEMA 461 Publication about Testing Protocols for Performance Based Design
- – USGS releases 2008 US National Seismic Hazard Maps: Maps, Open-File Report 2008-1128 (PDF file - 15.5 MB)
- – PEER announces addition of new Outreach Director
- – Professor Jack Moehle Awarded ACI's Arthur J. Boase Award
- – Concrete Coalition Received Funding From FEMA
- – LATBSDC 2008 Conference - May 9, 2008, Los Angeles, CA
- – Experimental and Computational Assessment of In-Span Hinge Diaphragms in Concrete Box-Girder Bridges
- – With NRC funding, PEER initiated a comprehensive multidisciplinary program: NGA-East
- – Building Pakistan's Capacity in Earthquake Engineering (PDF file - 19.6 MB)
Upcoming Events
- May 9, 2008
- LATBSDC 2008 Conference - Los Angeles, CA
- May 13, 2008
- NGA-East Workshop - Berkeley, CA
- June 18-20, 2008
- NEES 6th Annual Meeting: The Value of Earthquake Engineering Research - Portland, OR
- June 24-27, 2008
- 2008 Seismic Engineering International Conference Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake (PDF file - 180 KB) - Messina and Reggio Calabria, Italy
- August 11-16, 2008
- 6th Int'l Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering + Symposium in Honor of James K. Mitchell - Washington D.C.
- September 8-11, 2008
- First International Conference on Seismic Safety Problems of Caucasus Region Population, Cities and Settlements - Republic of Georgia
- October 12-17, 2008
- 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE) - Beijing, China
- October 21, 2008
- 140th Anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake
- October 22-24, 2008
- Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area (PDF file - 143 KB) - California State University, East Bay