April 14, 2021

SP3 Projects Webinar Series Continues April 14th, ft. Mark Moore, Tommy Sidebottom, Steve Marusich and Jessica Westermeyer

Invited speakers, Mark Moore, SE, LEEP AP and Tommy Sidebottom of ZFA Structural Engineers, Steve Marusich, SE of Forell | Elsesser Structural Engineers and Jessica Westermeyer, PE, SE of KPFF Consulting Engineers (Seattle), show that resilient design for Functional Recovery is not a future idea, but that it is being done now, and they are using it to delivering quickly-functional buildings to their clients.

The examples included the specifics of each project and showed how they leveraged the SP3-RiskModel to quantitively show the benefits of their resilient designs to their clients.

March 31, 2021

SP3 Projects Webinar Series continues March 31st, featuring David Mar and Reid Zimmerman

Invited speakers, David Mar, SE of Mar Structural Design and Reid Zimmerman, PE, SE of KPFF Consulting Engineers (Portland) describe how resilient design for Functional Recovery is not a future idea.

Both speakers explain how this is being done now on projects featured in this webinar, to deliver quickly-functional buildings to their clients. 

These examples include the specifics of two new projects and show each company leveraged the SP3-RiskModel to quantitively show the benefits of resilient design to their clients. 

March 17, 2021

SP3 Projects Webinar Series kicks off March 17th, featuring Anne Hulsey

Invited speaker, Anne Hulsey, PhD of the University of Auckland describes a framework to assess the impact of safety cordons on post-earthquake building accessibility.

Building-level performance assessments are obtained through SP3-Batch. These individual building results are then combined via geospatial information, considering both regional-scale ground shaking and neighborhood-scale access restrictions.

The framework is applied to downtown San Francisco to demonstrate how it can be used to probe the efficacy of various policy options for achieving resilience targets.

March 11, 2021

New SP3 Project Case Studies Webinar Series – Announced March 11, 2021

Announcing a new webinar series featuring examples of new projects utilizing SP3 for resilient design and functional recovery. Examples will include the specifics of each project and will show how companies are leveraging the SP3-Batch and the SP3-RiskModel to quantitively show the benefits of their resilient designs to their clients.

Each session will be followed by a live, interactive Q&A with moderator, Curt Haselton, and guest speakers from University of Auckland, Mar Structural Design, KPFF Consulting Engineers and Forell-Elsesser Engineers.

February 16, 2021

New Webinar Series on Modules within the newly-expanded SP3-Platform

The SP3 Team has announced a new webinar series to highlight the various modules of the newly-expanded SP3-Platform.  This Platform now enables consistent building-specific and site-specific seismic risk assessment for any level of building information. The SP3-RiskModel can use used for Express risk assessment models (with first-cut results literately in minutes), to Standard risk assessment models that are tailored for due-diligence risk assessment, all the way up to Advanced risk assessment models where the pencil can be sharpened the larger projects that warrant it. 

January 29, 2021

SP3 Webinar on “Quantifying Building Functional Recovery Time – New Developments and Ongoing Work”, presented by Dustin Cook

This webinar covered the current advancements to the FEMA P-58 method in quantifying post-earthquake building functional recovery (building closure time). Dustin Cook, from the University of Colorado Boulder, introduced a novel method for quantifying building-specific functional recovery using the FEMA P-58 framework, which includes time to reoccupancy, time to basic function, and time to full repair, all based on the FEMA P-58 process that provides component-level granularity for what aspects of structural and non-structural building damage impedes function. 

January 29, 2021

New Webinar Series on the Expanded SP3-Platform

The new SP3 website has been launched, to provide SP3 users with additional information about the various SP3 products, as well as additional technical training resources (papers, presentations, etc.).  

The SP3 team is also working on a new SP3 Knowledge Base that will be released in the near-future, in order to provide additional technical documentation on SP3 and FEMA P-58 analysis methods.

December 15, 2020

Client Migrations Underway to Upgrade Clients from SP3-Design v.2.6 to the new SP3-RiskModel Advanced!

Migrating appointments are underway for transitioning current SP3-Design clients to the new SP3-RiskModel Advanced, and will continue this for the next couple months. 

When each company is migrated, we will provide a live webinar with an SP3 Team engineer, to go over the new software details and to answer any questions.

December 10, 2020

Release of New SP3-RiskModel Advanced Module!

We are pleased to announce the release of the new SP3-RiskModel Advanced analysis module.  This new module is crafted to better support our clients focused on resilient design and advanced risk assessment. 

This is an upgrade from the advanced analysis capabilities previously found in SP3-Design v.2.6, is now fully integrated into the SP3-RiskModel, and has a wealth of new features.

Dr. Curt Haselton hosted a webinar to introduce the new SP3-RiskModel Advanced analysis module, cover the new features, summarize plans for migrating current SP3-Design users to the new software, and answer questions live.

December 01, 2020

SP3 Team Welcomes New Member David Welch!

The SP3 team welcomes new post-doc David Welch!  David joined Haselton Baker Risk Group in 2020 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.  At Stanford, he worked with Dr. Greg Deierlein and David was instrumental in the PEER-CEA project, which focused on how cripple walls impact the seismic vulnerability of wood light-frame construction. 

His areas of expertise include nonlinear analysis of structures, assessment of wood-frame structures, and application of probabilistic performance-based engineering frameworks.