Task description – Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings
Lead investigator – Ron Hamburger
Team members – Yousef Bozorgnia (PEER, UC Berkeley); C.B. Crouse (URS Consultants); Ronald Hamburger, Chair (Simpson Gumpertz & Heger); Ronald Klemencic (Magnusson Klemencic Associates); Helmut Krawinkler (Stanford University); James Malley (Degenkolb Engineers); Jack Moehle, Co-Chair (PEER, UC Berkley); Farzad Naeim (John A. Martin & Associates); and Jonathan Stewart (UC Los Angeles)
Funding Agencies – The Charles Pankow Foundation
Status – Active
Final Guidelines Document
- Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings – PEER 2010/05 (PDF file – 5.0 MB)
Supporting Documents
- November 2010 Draft: PEER Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings (pdf – 6.3 MB)
- Files from the 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)
- October 2010 Draft: PEER Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings (PDF file – 13.9 MB)
- July 2010 draft of the TBI Guidelines – 27 July 2010 (PDF file – 1.7 MB)
- First draft of seismic design guidelines – March 21, 2009 (PDF file – 11.2 MB)
- The PEER Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines Overview Presentation from LATBSDC 2009 (pdf file – 9.78 MB)
- Applicability of UBC-97 Eqn. 30-7 to Drift Calculations
- Recommended Administrative Bulletin on the Seismic Design & Review of Tall Buildings Using Non-Prescriptive Procedures, SEAONC & AB-083 Tall Buildings Task Group (April 2007) (PDF file – 1.3 MB)
- An Alternative Procedure for Seismic Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings Located in the Los Angeles Region (PDF file – 1.14 MB)
- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Website
- Recommendations for the Seismic Design of High-Rise Buildings, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat