New PEER Director Follows Merge of PEER and UC Berkeley's EERC
PEER is leading an initiative to develop design criteria that will ensure safe and usable tall buildings following future earthquakes. The initiative is funding a range of short to intermediate-term projects over the next 24 months.
The greatest earthquake risk in the U.S. is from damage and collapse of older buildings designed with insufficient consideration of earthquake effects. This project identifies just how widespread the collapse hazard is in our existing building stock and develops engineering and policy tools to identify and reduce the risk of hazardous buildings. This project is part of the NEES Research Program.
The purpose of the PEER TRP is to reduce the impacts of earthquakes on California’s transportation systems, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high speed rail, and airports.
As non-linear response history analyses are becoming more prevalent in practice, there is a need to better understand how a certain suite of records affects the response results. This is why the Ground Motion Selection and Modification (GMSM) WorkGroup was created.
"PEER is the primary earthquake engineering research arm of the State of California."
California Seismic Safety Commission
"Review of the PEER Center,"
March 8, 2007
Latest News
- – NSF has released the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR) Solicitation.
- – New PEER Director Follows Merge of PEER and UC Berkeley's EERC
- – Major Research Contract Signed to Develop Next Generation Attenuation Models for Central
- – In Remembrance of George W. Housner
- – Impressive Response to PEER Transportation Systems Research Program RFP
- – Five US Engineers recognized as "Legends of Earthquake Engineering"
- – Employment opportunity with the USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project, Golden, CO
- – Jennings steps down, Kutter elected as new Chair of PEER Institutional Board
- – 2009 Blind Analysis Contest at E-Defense
- – COSMOS 2008 Technical Session: Call for Posters
Upcoming Events
- February 26, 2009
- National Academies Disasters Roundtable: "Cascading Disasters: How Disasters Unfold" - Irvine, CA
- March 20, 2009
- Caltrans and PEER Seismic Research Seminar - Sacramento, CA
- April 14, 2009
- 2009 Lawson Lecture: "Building Resilient Communities: Fresh Challenges for Earthquake Professionals" - UC Berkeley Campus
- April 30 - May 2, 2009
- ASCE 2009 Structures Congress - Austin, Texas
- May 8, 2009
- Annual Conference of Los Angeles Tall Building Structural Design Council (LATBSDC) - Los Angeles, California
- May 11-13 2009
- ERES 2009 - Seventh International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures - Cyprus
- June 22-25, 2009
- NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference & NEES Annual Meeting - Honolulu, Hawaii
- June 28—July 1, 2009
- TCLEE 2009 Conference - Oakland, California
- December 9-11, 2009
- ATC & SEI Conference: Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures - San Francisco, California