Final Reports
- Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings (Task 10 Final Report)
- PEER 2010/05 – Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings (PDF file – 5.0 MB)
This report was published in the PEER Reports series as report PEER 2010/05.
* To view videos of presentations describing the Guidelines that were recorded at the SEAONC Seminar in April 2011, visit PEER’s YouTube Channel.
- Task 2 Final Report
- PEER 2008/101 – Seismic Performance Objectives for Tall Buildings (PDF file – 5.3 MB)
This report was published in the PEER Reports series as report PEER 2008/101.
- Task 7 Final Report
- Modeling and acceptance criteria for seismic design and analysis of tall buildings (PDF file – 9.3 MB)
This final report is being published by both PEER (Report No. 2010/111) and ATC (PEER/ATC 72-1).
- Task 8 Final Report
- Input Ground Motions for Tall Buildings With Subterranean Levels (PDF file – 684 KB)
- Task 12 Final Reports
- PEER 2011/05 – Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings Designed by Alternative Means: Task 12 Report for the Tall Buildings Initiative (PDF file – 26 MB)
This report was published in the PEER Reports series as report PEER 2011/06. - Other Task 12 Reports:
Concrete Core Wall Construction Cost Model for PEER Tall Buildings Study (PDF file – 150 KB)
Dual-system Construction Cost Model for PEER Tall Buildings Study (PDF file – 115 KB)
Structural Steel Construction Cost Model for PEER Tall Buildings Study (PDF file – 115 KB)
Conference and Journal Publications
- The Tall Buildings Initiative – Tony Yang, Yousef Bozorgnia, Jack Moehle (PDF file – 600 KB)
- Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in The U.S. – Jack Moehle (PDF file – 498 KB)
- Challenges in Specifying Ground Motions for Design of Tall Buildings in High Seismic Regions of the United States – Marshall Lew, Farzad Naeim, Martin B. Hudson, Boris O. Korin (PDF file – 359 KB)
- 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 – 0.4 MB)
- Ground Motion Tasks in the Tall Buildings Initiative – Yousef Bozorgnia, Jack Moehle (PDF file – 1.5 MB)
- Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the United States – Jack Moehle (PDF file – 450 KB)