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The research behind SP3.
70+ papers, presentations, and technical reports documenting the FEMA P-58 methodology and the SP3 engines and databases built on it.
SP3 risk analysis rests on more than 20 years of research and development — the underlying FEMA P-58 method plus the SP3 engines and databases that streamline it. The technical publications below document that work; for product documentation, see the SP3 Knowledge Base.
Papers & Technical Presentations From the SP3 Team (Selected)
Collapse Assessment of the ACC Building – Part I: ASCE 41 Evaluation Utilizing Nonlinear Response History Analyses of a 1965 Reinforced Concrete Building / Part II: Advanced Analysis Formulation and Observations
2025 Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) Convention in San Diego, CA. Part I prepared by M Engineering and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Part II prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, September 2025.
Seismic Design for Functional Recovery – Recovery-based Analysis Frameworks to Support the Development of Design Provisions: Overview of ATC-138
EERI 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, April 11, 2024.
Introduction to Functional Recovery and Latest Updates from 2026 NEHRP PUC FRTC (Part A) / Resilient Design for Functional Recovery using FEMA P-58/SP3 (with FR Module) (Part B)
2024 SEAOSC Northridge Earthquake Symposium – 30 Year Anniversary Event Joint Presentations prepared by Buehler Engineering and Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, January 17, 2024.
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery using FEMA P-58/SP3 (+ ATC-138)
2023 NCSEA Structural Engineers Summit Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, November 09, 2023.
Seismic Resilience and Risk Assessment of the Simpson Strong-Tie Yield-Link® Brace Connection
Simpson Strong-Tie Latest Design Solutions for Structural Steel Buildings using Braced Frame Connections to Resist Wind and Seismic Forces Webinar Series Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, September 14, 2023.
New Resilient Structural System in SP3: Taylor Damped Moment Frame (TDMF™)
New Resilient Structural Systems Available in SP3 Webinar Series Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC and Taylor Devices, Inc., June 22, 2023.
Expected Functional Recovery Performance of Current ASCE 7 Code-Minimum Buildings, and Specific Needs for Resilience-Based Design
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery Webinar Series Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, May 30, 2023.
FEMA P-58 Functional Recovery Module – Methodology and Use for Resilient Design
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery Webinar Series Prepared for Haselton Baker Risk Group, LLC, May 24, 2023.
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery using SP3 and FEMA P-58 (+ ATC-138)
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery Webinar Series Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, March 8, 2023.
FEMA P-58 for Seismic Risk Assessment
National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA) Annual Summit, November 2, 2022.
Practical Design Procedure for Steel Moment Frames with Fluid Viscous Dampers
2022 Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) Convention, September 2, 2022.
Building Reoccupancy and Recovery Times as Measured by the ATC-138 Functional Recovery Methodology
ATC-138 Functional Recovery Project Workshop, August 17, 2022.
Comparison of FEMA P-58 with Other Building Seismic Risk Assessment Methods
12th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering (12NCEE), June 30, 2022.
Bringing Design for Functional Recovery into the State of Practice: Updated Analytical Tools and Use on Recent Projects
12th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering (12NCEE), June 29, 2022.
A Framework for Operationalizing the Assessment of Post-1 Earthquake Functional Recovery of Buildings
Earthquake Spectra, vol. 38, no. 3, March 23, 2022, pp. 1972-2007.
Legislative Efforts in the United States to Change Building Code Requirements from Safety-Only-Based Design to Functionality-Based (Resilient) Design
The 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendia, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2021.
Hindcast Loss Estimates for the 1994 Northridge Earthquake: Implications for Loss Assessment at Low Intensity Shaking
The 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendia, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2021.
Seismic Risk and Resiliency Assessment of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames Considering Effects of Residual Drifts
The 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendia, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2021.
Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Times for New Residential Buildings in California: What do Current Codes and Building Practices Provide?
Prepared by Haselton Baker Risk Group LLC, April 28, 2021.
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery: Motivations and Drivers (and lots of examples!)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Annual Conference, San Diego CA, March 2-6, 2020.
Resilient Design for Functional Recovery – Expectations for Current California Buildings and Possible Approaches to More Resilient Design
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association of California Conference, August 2019, Tahoe City, California.
Implications of Seismic Design Values for Economic Loses
13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP13, Seoul, South Korea, May 26-30, 2019.
Resilient Seismic Design using Prescriptive and Non-Prescriptive Design Methods
The 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, California, June 2018, 9 pp.
New Developments for Rapid Seismic Risk Assessment of Wood Light-Frame Buildings
The 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, California, June 2018, 8 pp.
Seismic Risk Assessment of Tilt-Up Buildings Using the FEMA P-58 Method
The 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, California, June 2018, 11 pp.
Rapid Risk Assessment of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames, with Focus on Residual Drifts
The 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, California, June 2018, 11 pp.
Expected Performance of New Building-Code-Compliant Buildings in California
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association of California Conference, 2018.
Seismic Risk Assessment of Buckling Restrained Braced Frame Buildings, Including Detailed Evaluation of Residual Drifts
New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, 2018.
Response-History Analysis for the Design of New Buildings: Part I – Development of Recommendations for the NEHRP Provisions and the ASCE/SEI 7 Standard
Earthquake Spectra.
Response-History Analysis for the Design of New Buildings in the NEHRP Provisions and ASCE/SEI 7 Standard: Part II – Structural Analysis Procedures and Acceptance Criteria
Earthquake Spectra.
Considerations for a Framework of Resilient Structural Design for Earthquakes
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association Conference, September 2017, Los Angeles, California.
New Developments in Resilience-Based Seismic Design and Enhanced Risk Assessment in the U.S.
The 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, January 2017, 10 pp.
Response History Analysis for the Design of New Buildings: Part III – Example Applications to Illustrate the Recommended Methodology
Earthquake Spectra.
Guidelines on Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Steel and Concrete Moment Frames
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association of California Conference, October 12-15, 2016, Maui, Hawaii.
Improving Seismic Design of Buildings with Configuration Irregularities
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association of California Conference, October 12-15, 2016, Maui, Hawaii.
New Developments in FEMA P-58 Seismic Risk Assessment of Wood Light-Frame Buildings
Proceedings of the Structural Engineers Association of California Conference, October 12-15, 2016, Maui, Hawaii.
Keynote: Can we achieve seismically resilient buildings (and cities)? A look at recent developments and leveraging these moving forward
Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, Organized by the Applied Technology Council and Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, San Francisco, California, December 2015.
Building Loss Estimation Methods – A Comparison of Methods and Recommendations for the Future
Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, Organized by the Applied Technology Council and Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, San Francisco, California, December 2015.
Progress on Resilience-Based Seismic Design and Assessment Supported by Advanced Prediction of Building Damage, Repair Cost, and Building Closure Time
Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, Organized by the Applied Technology Council and Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, San Francisco, California, December 2015.
A New Dataset for Full-Scale RC Columns under Collapse-Consistent Loading Protocols
Earthquake Spectra.
Nonlinear Response-History Analysis for the Design of New Buildings: Update to ASCE7 Chapter 16
2014 Structural Engineers Association of California Convention Proceedings, Palm Springs, California.
Progress on Resilience-Based Seismic Design Supported by Advanced Prediction of Building Damage, Repair Costs, and Building Closure Time
15th U.S.-Japan Workshop on Improvement of Structural Design and Construction Practices, Organized by the Applied Technology Council.
Response-History Analysis for the Design of New Buildings: A Fully Revised Chapter 16 Methodology Proposed for the 2014 NEHRP Provisions and the ASCE/SEI 7-16 Standard
10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2014.
Nonlinear Analysis in Accordance with ASCE 7-16 (proposed) and ASCE 41-13: Compatibilities, Incompatibilities, and Needed Future Work
10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Anchorage, Alaska, July 2014.
Preliminary Results for NEESR Full-Scale RC Column Tests Under Collapse-Consistent Loading Protocols
10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Anchorage, Alaska, July 2014.
Development of Simplified Seismic Design Requirements for Seismic Design Category B Buildings in the ASCE7 Standard
Proceedings of American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute, Structures Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2014.
Proposed Changes to Nonlinear Response-History Provisions of the ASCE/SEI 7-16 Standard
Proceedings of American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute, Structures Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2014.
Conditional-Spectrum-based ground motion selection. Part I: Hazard consistency for risk-based assessments
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Volume 42, Issue 12, pp. 1847-1865, October 2013.
Conditional-Spectrum-based ground motion selection. Part II: Intensity-based assessments and evaluation of alternative target spectra [37 papers]
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Volume 42, Issue 12, pp. 1867-1884, October 2013.
Importance of Seismic Design Accidental Torsion Requirements for Building Collapse Capacity
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2375
Performance-Based Predictions of Earthquake-Induced Economic Losses in Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Volume 41, Issue 11, pp. 1455-1475, September 2012.
Seismic Collapse Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: I. Assessment of Ductile Moment Frames
American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Structural Engineering, Volume 137, Number 4, pp. 481-491, April 2011.
Seismic Collapse Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: II. Comparative Assessment of Non-Ductile and Ductile Moment Frames
American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Structural Engineering, Volume 137, Number 4, pp. 492-502, April 2011.
Accounting for Expected Spectral Shape (Epsilon) in Collapse Performance Assessment
American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Structural Engineering, Special Issue on Earthquake Ground-Motion Selection and Modification for Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis, Volume 137, Number 3, pp. 332-344, March 2011.
Incorporating Modeling Uncertainties in the Assessment of Seismic Collapse Risk of Buildings
Structural Safety, Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 197-211, January 2009.
Evaluation of the Seismic Performance of a Code-Conforming Reinforced-Concrete Frame Building – from Seismic Hazard to Collapse Safety and Economic Losses
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Volume 36, Issue 13, pp. 1973-1997, June 2007.
Papers & Building Codes and Standard Chapters Co-Authored by SP3 Team Members (Selected)
Chapter 3, Design Examples – Earthquake Ground Motions (2016)
National Earthquake Hazard Program Provisions, Building Seismic Safety Council, National Institute of Building Science, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Chapter 5, Design Examples – Nonlinear Response-History Analysis (2016)
National Earthquake Hazard Program Provisions, Building Seismic Safety Council, National Institute of Building Science, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Chapter 16, Seismic Response-History Procedure (2015)
National Earthquake Hazard Program Provisions, Building Seismic Safety Council, National Institute of Building Science, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (being used as part of the 2016 revision to the ASCE 7 Standard, i.e. the U.S. building code)
Chapter 24, Alternative Seismic Design Requirements for Seismic Design Category B Buildings (2015)
National Earthquake Hazard Program Provisions, Building Seismic Safety Council, National Institute of Building Science, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
ATC/FEMA/NIST/PEER Technical Reports Co-Authored by SP3 Team Members (Selected)
Guidelines for Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings Part I – General
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-114, Redwood City, CA
Guidelines for Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings Part IIa – Steel Moment Frames
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-114, Redwood City, CA
Guidelines for Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings Part IIb – Reinforced Concrete Moment Frames
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-114, Redwood City, CA [C.B. Haselton was the Technical Director for this portion of the project]
Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses, NIST GCR 11-917-15
Prepared for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-82, Redwood City, CA
Roadmap for Solutions to the Issue of Short Period Building Performance
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-116, Redwood City, CA.
Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction for Building Structures
Prepared for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-83, Redwood City, CA.
Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings: Volume 2 – Implementation Guide
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-58-1, Redwood City, CA
Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors – Component Equivalency Methodology, FEMA P795
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-63-1, Redwood City, CA
Evaluation of Ground Motion Selection and Modification Methods: Predicting Median Interstory Drift Response of Buildings, PEER Report 2009/01
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, California
Recommended Methodology for Quantification of Building System Performance and Response Parameters, FEMA P695
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Prepared by the Applied Technology Council under Project ATC-63, Redwood City, CA
An Assessment to Benchmark the Seismic Performance of a Code-Conforming Reinforced-Concrete Moment-Frame Building, PEER Report 2007/12
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, California
Beam-Column Element Model Calibrated for Predicting Flexural Response Leading to Global Collapse of RC Frame Buildings, PEER Report 2007/03
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, California
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