The Long Beach Civic Center project has demonstrated that resilience-based design is feasible and cost-effective. The building was designed to have low repair cost and virtually no downtime.
Nabih Youssef Associates Structural Engineers and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP used SP3 iteratively in the design process to meet resilience targets using the FEMA P-58 and REDi analysis methods.
Based on the owner’s target resilience level, the building achieved less than 2% loss and approximately one week reoccupancy time for a design-level earthquake, compared to 10-15% loss and 6-12 months of downtime for a typical code-compliant building design.
For more information about this project, download the project presentation (PPTX).