Multihazard Building Design Summer Institute

During the weeks of July 22 and 29, 2002, the MMC oversaw conduct of the 2002 Multihazard Building Design Summer Institute (MBDSI) at FEMA’s National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In late 2000, NIBS entered into a contract with FEMA providing for MMC organization, administration, and conduct of the summer institute in 2001 and five option years. For the 2002 MBDSI, 27 students took the wind protective design course, 19, the flood resistance design course, and 32, a new advanced earthquake design course. MBDSI students generally are professors in undergraduate schools of engineering and leave the summer institute with an instructors manual, student manual, and set of up-to-date reference documents that serve as a resource in designing specific lesson plans and lecture notes for courses they will teach. This "train-the-trainer" philosophy, which has been employed successfully for many years, has proven to be effective in stimulating increased attention to hazard resistant design in undergraduate engineering programs. The 2001 MBDSI course included the wind course, the basic earthquake course, and a newly developed course on dam safety.

During the last two weeks of July, three courses were presented at the 2003 MBDSI . The Dam Safety Design course, first developed for the 2001 MBDSI, was conducted again with the wind and advanced earthquake courses. The flood course did not attract enough students and was not given this year. To eliminate confusion, the advanced earthquake course has been renamed "Topics in Performance Based Earthquake Engineering".

All courses were presented at the FEMA operated Emergency Management Institute (EMI) located in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Future courses have been cancelled until further notice.