Seismic Event & Code History
This 1994 earthquake revealed significant weaknesses in welded steel moment frame buildings.
What is the Northridge EQ?
The most widely used green building rating system.
What is LEED?
SEAOC members led by H.J. Brunnier were successful in getting this piece of legislation on licensure into California law in 1932.
What is the Structural Engineers Title Act?
This organization was founded in 1993 to improve the level of standard of practice of Structural Engineering throughout the US.
What is NCSEA?
In 1996, this person was the first woman elected President of SEAOC.
Who is Maryann Phipps?
This building code made sweeping changes to the seismic design provisions, including consideration for near fault effects and new seismic design provisions for non-structural systems.
What is the 1997 UBC?
The “3 D’s” of loss that are often used to define seismic resilience.
What is damage, deaths, and downtime?
The 2020 SE3 engagement survey found that SEs who receive this more than once a year are more likely to be satisfied with their careers.
What is performance feedback?
In 1973, SEAOC engineers were increasingly burdened by code development when an anonymous letter suggested creating this organization to translate research into practical applications.
What is ATC?
The President of SEAOC in 1958, seen here at a convention costume party.
Who is Henry Degenkolb?
Damage to non-structural components and manufactured housing were the greatest contributor to property losses in this 2014 earthquake.
What is the South Napa EQ?
A systematic way of measuring embodied carbon and other environmental impact measures associated with buildings over their lifetime.
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (or LCA)?
The number of US states that have full or partial practice restrictions for a Structural Engineering license.
What are 10 states?
Founded in 1948, this organization is dedicated to understanding earthquake risk and increasing earthquake resilience in communities worldwide.
What is EERI?
The 6 people who are past presidents of both SEAOC and NCSEA.
Who are Paul Fratessa, Emily Guglielmo, Ron Hamburger, Ryan Kersting, Jim Malley, and Bill Warren?
The damage in this 1989 earthquake led to new ordinances requiring mitigation of unreinforced masonry and soft story buildings.
What is the Loma Prieta EQ?
This committee is developing proposals for the 2026 NEHRP Provisions regarding the design of new buildings to meet post-earthquake functional recovery performance objectives.
What is the Functional Recovery Task Committee?
Several SE3 engagement surveys have found that there is a high correlation between this and career advancement.
What is mentoring?
This program was created by Congress in 1977 to establish and maintain an effective earthquake hazards reduction program.
What is NEHRP?
Counting this year and 2020, but not last year, there have been this many SEAOC Conventions.
What is 92?
In 1959, SEAOC released the first edition of this influential document, which was a concise 7 pages of text.
What is the Blue Book?
According to data from the EPA, cement and steel production each contributed this percentage of carbon dioxide emissions globally in 2021.
What is 7 percent?
This SEAOC member was awarded the first California SE license.
Who is S.B. Barnes?
This consortium’s mission is to “develop and disseminate technologies to support performance-based earthquake engineering.”
What is PEER?
At the 1962 SEAOC Convention, the registration fee was $25 for a man and $10 for a woman, and this was the rate for a hotel room, including meals, at the Hotel Coronado.
What is $34?