The Latest from SP3
News & Updates
Product releases, research milestones, webinars, and progress on resilient design building codes.
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SEAOC Convention Presentation
Ed Almeter (SP3) presented on Resilient Design for Functional Recovery at the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) 90th Anniversary Convention. This included recovery time assessment method updates as part of the ATC-138, recent projects examples, and a call to action. The call proposes that leaders in seismic engineering pursue a coordinated effort to create prescriptive design requirements for resilient design for quick post-earthquake recovery of building function.
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SP3 Welcomes Aaron Malatesta to the Team!
The SP3 team welcomes new Senior Associate, Aaron Malatesta! Prior to joining Haselton Baker Risk Group in August 2021, Aaron acted as a technical director for a product manufacturer leading the development of the technical publications and presentations while working with engineers to create resilient designs. He has also practiced structural engineering for consulting firms focused on both buildings and transportation infrastructure.
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New Risk Modeling Updates for Wood Light-Frame
We are pleased to announce a couple major updates to our SP3 wood light-frame modeling module, which pull in the valuable learning from the recent three-year PEER-CEA research project, and fully integrate those findings into the SP3 engineering-analysis-based building-specific Monte Carlo risk analysis process. This effort was led by new SP3 Team member Dr. David Welch, who was previously a Stanford post-doc and played an instrumental role in the PEER-CEA project by being the primary modeler and analyst.
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Announcing the Release of SP3-Portfolio!
We are pleased to announce the release of the new SP3-Portfolio analysis module, which brings our building-specific seismic risk assessment advances to the analysis of your building portfolio. This new module marries the typical portfolio-level insurance modeling with the detailed building-specific vulnerability curves from the SP3-RiskModel. Portfolio risk analyses historically use generic vulnerability models for classes of building, which loses any building-specific risk information. This simplification is no longer needed with SP3-Portfolio!
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SEAONC Summer Webinar on Functional Recovery & Resilience
The Summer Webinar on Functional Recovery and Resilience presented July 8th and 15th, 12-2 PM, focused on functional recovery in terms of resilience and the related implications for the practicing engineer. July 8th introduced broad concepts and framework tools that have been used on real projects that were shared during the July 15th webinar.
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SP3 Academic Guest Lecture: University of California, San Diego
The SP3 team regularly gives guest lectures on the development and applications of SP3 to engineering students of all levels of study. Curt Haselton, PhD, PE had the pleasure of speaking to the Spring SE 227 class at UC San Diego and helped them familiarize with resilient design. The SP3 Team happily provided a complimentary academic license for selected student use for the 2021 Spring semester of this class so students could implement resilient design in their class projects.
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SP3 Mentioned in June 2021 STRUCTURE Magazine
We’re please to announce SP3 has been mentioned in the June 2021 Tall Building issue of STRUCTURE Magazine.
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SP3 White Paper on Functional Recovery for New Ca Housing Bill Now Available
The SP3 team recently released a white paper that examines post-earthquake recovery times for residential buildings in California. Earthquake resilience, particularly Functional Recovery, has garnered significant attention in the California legislature, so the purpose of this white paper is to help California lawmakers (and residents) understand the resilience of California residential buildings, as they begin to consider Functional Recovery legislation.
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New Webinar Presented by the USRC Featuring SP3 Co-Founder!
The USRC recently hosted Episode 7 in the Resilience Advantage webinar series, featuring SP3 work and ongoing work by many of our industry partners. This episode focuses on “The Science and Innovation of Resilience”, and features our own SP3 co-founder, Dr. Curt Haselton, along with other experts leading the charge for resilient design in the industry. The webinar aired on May 19, 2021 and included a 25 minute presentation on innovative solutions for resilience, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session (approximately 60 minutes).
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SP3 Academic Guest Lecture: Texas A&M
The SP3 team regularly gives guest lectures on the development and applications of SP3 to engineering students of all levels of study. Curt Haselton, PhD, PE had the pleasure of speaking to the Engineering Risk Analysis class at Texas A&M and helped them familiarize with resilient design. The SP3 Team happily provided a complimentary academic license for student use for the 2021 Spring semester of this class so students could implement resilient design in their class projects.