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New ASCE 7-16 Seismic Design Standards – More Site-Specific Design?

March 23, 2018 rockman Comments Off

ASCE/SEI’s 7-16 publication, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, was published last year and contains some new seismic design standards. According to an analysis by one group of industry professionals […]

Preparing for the Big One: Assessing American Building Codes

June 21, 2010 rockman Comments Off

Audio files and PowerPoint presentations from an ENR-moderated panel discussion on June 8, 2010 discussing US seismic codes in the context of the observations made from the recent Haiti and Chile earthquakes. The 2010 earthquakes […]