2005 Annual Meeting

May 17–18, 2005
Tropicana Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

The buzz about a new format for the 2008 edition of the NEHRP Recommended Provisions drew over 50 interested engineers, architects and code officials to the BSSC Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas, NV. The meeting was moderated by BSSC Chair Jim Sealy, FAIA. Prior to the opening of the annual meeting, the BSSC Board, the Code Resource Support Committee (CRSC), and the Provisions Update Committee (PUC) met separately.

Program (PDF 37 KB)

Presentations

• The U.S. Geological Survey’s Role in the NEHRP Partnership (PDF 2 MB)
  Contributor: David Appelgate, Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards, USGS
• Earthquake Engineering at NSF and Programs in Civil and Mechanical Systems at NSF (PDF 426 KB)
  Contributor: Steven L. McCabe, Program Director, Structural Systems and Hazard Mitigation, NSF
• Status of FEMA's Role in the NEHRP (PDF 3.2 MB)
  Contributor: Clifford E. Oliver, Chief Risk Assessment Branch, Mitigation Division, FEMA
• NIST and the NEHRP (PDF 4.2 MB)
  Contributor: S. Shyam Sunder, Acting Deputy Director, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Development of Improved Guidance for Storage Racks in Public Retail Facilities (PDF 1.2 MB)
  Contributor: Michael Mahoney, FEMA
• Presentation of the Rack Project (PDF 2.1 MB)
  Contributor: Robert Bachman, Rack Project Chair
• Development of the 2008 NEHRP (PDF 115 KB)
  Contributor: APeter Somers, Magnusson Klemencic
• 2008 NEHRP Issues (PDF 111 KB)
  Contributor: Ron Hamburger, 2008 PUC Chair
• National Seismic Hazard Maps and Products: Update 2005-2007 (PDF 1.1 MB)
  Contributor: Mark Petersen
• Ground Motions Outside the U.S. and Design Tools (PDF 1.9 MB)
  Contributor: E. V. Leyendecker
• FEMA-Existing Buildings Update (PDF 3.8 MB)
  Contributor: Cathleen Carlisle, FEMA
• FEMA's Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation Series (PDF 1.3 MB)
  Contributor: Mel Green, Melvyn Green Assoicates
• Homebuilder's Guide to Seismic Design and Construction (PDF 397 KB)
  Contributors: Dan Dolan, Ph.D., P.E. James Russell Kelly Cobeen
• FEMA's Performance-Based Design Project (PDF 3.5 MB)
  Contributor: Michael Mahoney, FEMA
• Development of Next-Generation Performance Based Design Guidelines (PDF 1.3 MB)
  Contributors: Ronald O. Hamburger, SE Project Technical Director
  Michael G. Mahoney Project Officer