AIA Conference on Architecture 2021
May 3, 2025 | 7:27 AM – 7:27 AM ET
Join us June 17, July 8, July 29, and August 19 for a series of immersive, connected, all-digital experiences with leaders in architecture and beyond.
Resilience 2021: How to Stay Safe as Lockdowns Lift and Buildings Reopen
May 3, 2025 | 12:48 AM – 12:48 AM ET
What are the possible health risks that people face with returning to these unoccupied spaces? Our panel of experts will discuss this and how they see the building industry recalibrating itself to adjust to a post-pandemic world.
Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves Case Study: Portland International Airport Resilient Runway
May 3, 2025 | 8:15 AM – 8:15 AM ET
Oregon could experience a magnitude-8.7 or larger earthquake in the next 50 years.
This webinar will present key findings in a case study by the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council (MMC) of the National Institute of Building Sciences that estimates the benefits of a seismically resilient runway at Portland International Airport (PDX).
Using NIBS’ groundbreaking Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves research, MMC found that an upgraded resilient runway at PDX could:
BESTfest
May 3, 2025 | 5:18 AM – 5:18 AM ET
The BESTfest seminar brings together industry leaders and experts to discuss how the Building Enclosure Science and Technology field has changed since COVID-19 shook the world.
2019 SEAOC Convention
May 3, 2025 | 8:15 AM – 8:15 AM ET
What to Expect
- Welcome reception with beer tasting and pub fare
- Four tracks of technical sessions featuring research, innovation, and business development
- Opening and Closing Keynote sessions
- Expo with over 60 industry partners
- Reception and Dinner at High Camp with breathtaking views
- Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards reception
- An amazing evening organized by our long time partner sponsor, CSI
- Golf tournament, Foot Golf, and Drone Race
FEMA/BSSC 2020 NEHRP Provisions Session
<BSSC 2020 NEHRP Provisions Resource Paper: Resilience—Based Design and the NEHRP Provisions (February 2020)
A Part III Resource Paper approved for the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Building and Other Structures addresses the potential relationship between future NEHRP Provisions and resilience–based earthquake design, especially in the context of definitions and priorities established in federal law by the 2018 NEHRP reauthorization. Keywords: Resilience, Functional Recovery, NEHRP Provisions, Seismic Design.
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NEHRP/PUC Recommended Future Issues and Research Needs (September, 2021)
As part of its efforts to regularly update the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures, the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) is charged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to identify and recommend issues to be addressed and research needed to advance the state of the art of earthquake-resistant design and to serve as the basis for future refinement of the Provisions.
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NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions 1985-2015
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures is a series of publications developed by the BSSC and published by FEMA. The first edition was published in 1985, with later editions in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2009 and 2015.
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International Mass Timber Conference
May 3, 2025 | 8:15 AM – 8:15 AM ET
The International Mass Timber Conference is the largest gathering of mass timber experts in the world.
National BIM Guide for Owners
The purpose of the NBGO is to outline for the building Owner how to develop and implement requirements for the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for internal policies and procedures, and explain how to include these requirements in contracts to plan, design, construct and operate buildings.
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