The latest versions of the ATC-45 Rapid and Detailed Evaluation safety assessment forms and the posting placards, as specified in the ATC-45 Field Manual: Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Wind Storms and Floods, are available here to facilitate their rapid dissemination in any emergency.

The Plan applies to the coordination of domestic and foreign post-earthquake investigations supported by the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). The plan addresses coordination of both the NEHRP agencies - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Science Foundation (NSF), and U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) - and their partners.

ATC-45 Seminar on Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods

Sponsored by the Structural Engineers Association of Ohio, Friday, August 22, in Columbus, Ohio. Download the itenerary and registration form here.

ATC TechBriefs are short documents on subjects of interest to earthquake engineering professionals. TechBriefs summarize research that is relevant to design practice.

These three data collections forms, for High, Moderate, and Low seismicity regions, are taken from the FEMA 154 report, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook, Second Edition and the companion FEMA 155 report, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation, Second Edition. The rapid visual screening procedure (RVS) has been developed to be implemented by a government agency or corporate owner of buildings, or the building department of a city or other community to identify, inventory, and rank buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous.

The revised ATC-38 Postearthquake Building Assessment Forms have been made available here to facilitate the collection of building structural characteristics and performance data in the vicinity (within 1000 feet) of strong-motion recordings.

The curriculum, a product of a joint venture partnership of the Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC), has been developed to serve as a resource for continuing education of architects, engineers, building officials and inspectors. Bound in a three-ring notebook, the curriculum consists of several hundred pages of training materials pertaining to the seismic design and retrofit of wood-frame buildings, concrete and masonry construction, and nonstructural components. The curriculum contains six multi-part two-color Briefing Papers and Job Aids to facilitate the building design, inspection and construction process, all downloadable.

				ATC-58 Project: Development of Next-Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedures for New and Existing Buildings.
				ATC-62 Project: Advanced Seismic Analysis Methods.
				ATC 63 Project: Quantification of Building System Performance and Response Parameters
			ATC 64 Project: Development of Design and Construction Guidance for Special Facilities for Vertical Evacuation from Tsunamis
				ATC 69 Project: Update of FEMA 74, Reducing the Risks of Nonstructural Earthquake Damage - A Practical Guide
			ATC-71 Project: Update Seismic Rehabilitation Guidance, Program Definition and Guidance Development
				ATC 72 Project: Development of Guidelines on Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings
				ATC 75 Project: Development of Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) for Structural components

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The revised versions of the ATC-20 Rapid and Detailed Evaluation safety assessment forms and the revised posting placards, as specified in the ATC-20-2 report, Addendum to the ATC-20 Postearthquake Building Safety Procedures, and as utilized in the ATC-20-3 report, Case Studies in Rapid Postearthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings, are available here to facilitate their rapid dissemination in any emergency.