The initiative is funding a range of short to intermediate-term projects in 2007-2010. Specific tasks for this initiative are:
- Task 1– Establish the Tall Buildings Project Advisory Committee
- Task 2 – Develop Consensus on Performance Objectives
- Task 3 – Baseline Assessment of Dynamic Response Characteristics of Tall Buildings
- Task 4 – Synthetically Generated Ground Motions
- Task 5 – Review and Validation of Synthetically Generated Ground Motions
- Task 6 – Guidelines on Selection and Modification of Ground Motions
- Task 7 – Guidelines on Modeling and Acceptance Values
- Task 8 – Input Ground Motions for Tall Buildings with Subterranean Levels
- Task 9 – Presentations at Conferences, Workshops, Seminars
- Task 10 – Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings
- Task 11 – Instrumentation (under development)
- Task 12 – Quantification of seismic performance levels of tall buildings