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Product releases, research milestones, webinars, and progress on resilient design building codes.
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SP3 at the 2026 SEAOC Convention
The SP3 Team is exhibiting and presenting at the SEAOC 2026 Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona — visit us at Booth #108, and catch our Friday session on proposed code design requirements for resilient design of 11 structural systems.
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Functional Recovery Design Provisions Approved for 2026 NEHRP
On June 24, the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) Provisions Update Committee (PUC) approved new functional recovery seismic design provisions — now published in the 2026 NEHRP Provisions and currently being balloted in the ASCE 7-28 process.
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SP3 Team Attends 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Portland
Last week, the SP3 team traveled to Portland, Oregon for the 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE), hosted by EERI.
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The Resilient Design Coalition Submits the First Batch of Structural System Evaluations to the 2026 NEHRP Provisions Update Committee
The Resilient Design Coalition has submitted the first group of new structural system evaluations to the 2026 NEHRP Provisions Update Committee. This includes full structural system evaluation reports, which have also been fuller peer reviewed, including a peer review findings letter.
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Webinar #3 of the Resilient Design Coalition
This webinar provided a comprehensive update on the work of the Resilient Design Coalition, including development of formal structural system qualification requirements for new structural systems, evaluations of many new structural systems, and an overview of forthcoming submission to the 2026 NEHRP Provisions Update Committee.
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Technical Presentation at SEAOC Convention on Resilient Design for Functional Recovery
At the SEAOC Convention this year, Dr. Haselton provided a technical presentation on the progress of Resilient Design for Functional Recovery, and HB-Risk and the SP3 Team also had an exhibit booth. It was great to see many of you there from our structural engineering community!
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BSSC Provisions Update Committee – Approval by PUC of New Functional Recovery Appendix A for the 2026 NEHRP Provisions
At the August 26th Provisions Update Committee meeting, the official Appendix A proposal was approved and passed on to the Member Organizations ballot step. This is exciting and is an important milestone in our joint efforts to create code requirements that enables broad resilient design for functional recovery!
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HB-Risk and the Resilient Design Coalition Launch work with the Newly Sanctioned Technical Review Committee
We have now formed an official Technical Review Committee, which has been tasked with independent technical review of the work of the Resilient Design Coalition, as well as independent technical review of other aspects of the SP3 software and underlying analytical methods. This prestigious committee includes Dr. Greg Deierlein (Stanford, Committee Chair), Dr. Abbie Liel (University of Colorado at Boulder), and Bob Pekelnicky (SE and Principle, Degenkolb Engineers).
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Dr. Haselton Invited SEAONC Technical Seminar on Resilient Design for Functional Recovery in San Francisco
Dr. Haselton gave a technical seminar to the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California, in San Francisco on April 8th. This seminar was about Resilient Design for Functional Recovery including an overview of the technical development and SP3 software development conducted over the past decade to enable the emergence of these new Resilient Design for Functional Recovery seismic design methods.
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Resilient Design Coalition Webinar #2 – Technical Design Requirements Development for Resilient Design for Function Recovery (by Dr. Carlos Molina-Hutt)
The second webinar in the Resilient Design Coalition series, held on March 3, 2025, was presented by Dr. Carlos Molina Hutt of the University of British Columbia and focused on the development of structural and nonstructural seismic design requirements for functional recovery performance in the upcoming 2026 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions.
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