Events | Tall Buildings Initiative

PEER Seminars: TBI Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings Version 2

October 24, Tuesday, San Francisco, CA: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, 100 Pine Street, 17^th floor (live)
October 24, Tuesday, Sacramento, CA: OSHPD, 2020 West El Camino Avenue, Suite 800 (webcast)
October 24, Tuesday, San Diego, CA: Degenkolb, 225 Broadway, Suite 1325 (webcast)
November 2, Thursday, Seattle, WA: Magnusson Klemencic Associates, 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 [10/26 update] (live)
November 28, Tuesday, Los Angeles, CA: AON Center Auditorium, 707 Wilshire Boulevard (live)

PEER & SEAOSC Seminar: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design – September 2011, Long Beach, California

View the event presentations and details at the PEER Website.

PEER & SEAONC Seminar: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and its applications to Tall Building Design – April 19 & 21, 2011, San Francisco California

View the event presentations and details at the PEER Website.
To view videos of the presentations recorded at the SEAONC Seminar in April 2011, visit PEER’s YouTube Channel.

PEER & SEAW Workshop: Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines for New Tall Buildings – November 30, 2010, Seattle, Washington

Overview: PEER Tall Building Seismic Design Guidelines – Crouse, Hamburger, Hooper, Moehle (PDF file – 2.5 MB)
Case Studies Performance Assessment – Moehle (PDF file – 9.1 MB)
Preliminary Design Recommendations & Performance Studies – Hooper (PDF file – 4.2 MB)
Analysis, Modeling and Acceptance Criteria – Hamburger (PDF file – 10 MB)
Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings Ch. 5: Seismic Input (Ground Motion) – Crouse, Stewart, Bozorgnia (PDF file – 41.2 MB)

Quake Summit 2010: PEER and NEES Annual Meeting – October 2010, San Francisco, California

PEER Tall Building Initiative Overview – Jack Moehle (PDF file xx MB)
Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines Overview, Performance Objectives and Design Criteria – Ron Hamburger (PDF file xx MB)
Seismic Input and Soil Structure Interaction – Jonathan Stewart (PDF file xx MB)
Preliminary Design – Ron Klemencic (PDF file xx MB)
Response Evaluation – Helmut Krawinkler (PDF file xx MB)
Summary of Case Studies – Farzin Zareian (PDF file xx MB)

9th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering – July 2010, Toronto, Canada

Guidelines for Seismic Design of Tall Buildings – Ronald Hamburger and Jack Moehle
Seismic Behavior and Modeling of Flat-plate Gravity Framing in Tall Buildings – Jack Moehle, Tony Yang, Gabriel Hurtado

LA Tall Building Seismic Design Council 2010 Conference: Design Showcase – May 7, 2010, Los Angeles, California

Agenda (PDF file – 150 KB)
Ground Motion Selection and Scaling for the Analysis of the Tall Building Case Studies – Zareian, Zhong (PDF file – 3.1 MB)
PEER-CSSC tall building case studies: Concrete core wall building – Tony Yang (PDF file – 1 MB)
Analysis of Building 2 (Dual System) – Zeynep Tuna , John W. Wallace (PDF file – 1.3 MB)
Response of TBI Case Study Buildings – Analysis Of Steel Building – Jones, Zareian (PDF file – 7 MB)
Wind Issues In The Design Of Tall Buildings – Peter A.Irwin (PDF file – 2 MB)
Structural Engineering of a Chicago Landmark – Klemencic (PDF file – 3 MB)
Performance Based Seismic Evaluation of Icon Hotel in Dubai – Berahman (PDF file – 4.7 MB)
ATC-63 FEMA P- 695 Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors – Jon A. Heintz (PDF file – 9.2 MB)
The Benefits of Using Viscous Dampers in a 42-Story Building – Ekwueme, Hart, Ozegbe, Simsir, Brandow (PDF file – 2 MB)
Plan of a Course on Performance Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings – Naeim (PDF file – 225 KB)
Structural Design of the New Airport Traffic Control Tower at the McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada – Ekwueme, Chiu (PDF file – 4.7 MB)
Should Design Spectra in Building Codes Be Specified from the Maximum Component or the Average Horizontal? – Jonathan P. Stewart (PDF file – 800 KB)
Performance of Tall Buildings During the 2/27/2010 Chile Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake: A Preliminary Briefing – Naeim (PDF file – 6.2 MB)

Tall Buildings Project Advisory Committee (T-PAC), CSSC, CalEMA, and Seismic Design Guidelines Group Meeting – July 22, 2009

Hooper – Design of Concrete Core Wall Building (pdf file – 2.3 MB)
Ghodsi – Case study #2: PEER/SSC Tall Building Design (pdf file – 3.7 MB)
Hamburger – Case Study of a 40 Story BRBF Building Located In Los Angeles (pdf file – 3.2 MB)

Annual Conference of Los Angeles Tall Building Structural Design Council (LATBSDC) – May 8, 2009, Los Angeles, California

The PEER Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines – Jack Moehle (pdf file – 9.78 MB)
The Tall Buildings Initiative Introduction to PEER/CSSC Case Studies – Yousef Bozorgnia (pdf file – 1.14 MB)
PEER/SSC Tall Building Design – Tony Ghodsi (pdf file – 3.71 MB)
PEER/CSSC Tall Building Design Case Study Building #1 – J. Andrew Fry, John Hooper, Ron Klemencic (pdf file – 2.27 MB)
Case Study of a 40 Story BRBF Building Located in Los Angeles – Anindya Dutta, Ronald O. Hamburger (pdf file – 3.2 MB)

2008 Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) Convention – September 22-27, 2008, Hawaii

ATC-72 of the PEER Tall Buildings Initiative: Interim Guidelines on Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings (PDF file – 3.1 MB)

Annual Meeting of LA Tall Buildings Structural Design Council, co-sponsored by LATBSDC & PEER – May 9, 2008, Los Angeles, CA

Agenda (PDF file – 180 KB)

Presentation files

Scraping the Sky – Jack Moehle (JPG file – 1.7 MB)
Interim Guidelines on Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings – Jon Heintz (PDF file – 64 KB)
Modeling Guidelines for Nonlinear Analysis – Gregory Deierlein, Helmut Krawinkler (PowerPoint file – 2.86 MB)
Case studies to characterize the seismic demands for high-rise buildings – Tony Yang, Jack Moehle, Steve Mahin, John Hooper, Yousef Bozorgnia, Colleen McQuoid (PowerPoint file – 2.64 MB)
Modeling Issues Associated with Deterioration – Helmut Krawinkler (PDF file – 950 KB)
Nonlinear Modeling of RC Beam-Columns & Joints – Gregory Deierlein (PDF file – 2.2 MB)
ATC-72 Report – Chapter 4 – Modeling of Core Walls Systems and Components – John Wallace, Marisol Salas, David Naish (PDF file – 1.1 MB)
Floor diaphragms, collectors, and podium and backstay effects in tall buildings – Joe Maffei (PDF file – 2.1 MB)

8th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering – December 2007, Singapore

Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the United States – Jack Moehle (PDF file – 19.5 MB)

PEER/SCEC Invitational Workshop on Ground Motion and Structural Simulations for Tall Buildings – November 2, 2007, UC Berkeley

Ground Motion Simulation – Brad Aagaard (PDF file – 4.7 MB)
Numerical Ground Motion Simulations: Assumptions, Verification And Validation (PDF file – 882 KB)
Ground Motion Simulations For Scenario Earthquakes – Rob Graves (PDF file – 12 MB)
Nonlinear Response – History Analysis in Design Practice – Joe Maffei (PDF file – 13.3 MB)
PEER-SCEC Workshop on Ground Motion Simulation and Building Response Simulation – Paul Somerville (PDF file – 328 KB)

CSMIP 2007 Seminar – September 2007

Development of Criteria for the Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings in California – Yousef Bozorgnia, Jack Moehle (PDF file – 1.5 MB)

2007 Convention of the Structural Engineers Association of California – September 2007, Squaw Valley, California

The Tall Buildings Initiative – SEAOC 2007 (PDF file – 1.1 MB)

L.A. Tall Buildings Structural Design Council 2007 Annual Meeting – May 2007

Input Ground Motions for Tall Buildings with Subterranean Levels – J. Stewart and S. Tileylioglu – UCLA (PDF file – 864 KB)
The Tall Buildings Initiative for Alternative Seismic Design – J. Moehle – UC Berkeley (PDF file – 379 KB)
Buildings over 240 ft – J. Moehle – UC Berkeley (PDF file – 3.63 MB)
Ground Motion Selection, Modification and Simulation for Seismic Analysis of Tall Buildings: Status Report – Yousef Bozorgnia, PEER, Nicolas Luco, USGS, Farzad Naeim, JAMA, Paul Somerville, URS (PDF file – 3.4 MB)

Task 2 Workshop – April 18, 2007

Description and Purpose of Task 2 (PDF file – 100 KB)
Summary of Survey Results (PDF file – 144 KB)
Interview Process (PDF file – 132 KB)
Background of Seismic Codes and Performance Expectations (PDF file – 17.6 MB)

University of Kansas Structural Conference – March 2007

1997 Uniform Building Code – J. Moehle – UC Berkeley (PDF file – 6.5 MB)

EERI 2007 Annual Meeting – February 2007

Special Session: “Very Tall Buildings (240′ +) in High Seismic Areas” (PDF file – 2.1 MB)