Designing for Resilience: The Role of the Structural Engineer

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Description

You've heard about "resilience." You might even have been asked by a client about it, read articles about "resilient buildings," or seen ads for "resilient" products and services. But what is it, and how will it affect structural engineering? In brief, resilience-based design shifts the emphasis from the safety of buildings to the recovery of communities from natural hazard events.

This webinar will consider the implications of this shift and cover differences between resilience and performance-based design, retrofit programs, and other worthwhile efforts. The talk will explain several of the leading resilience initiatives (plus some of the misleading ones) and the different perspectives behind them. It will locate structural engineering practice and building codes within the larger resilience context and will describe the work of NCSEA's new Resilience committee, which is looking at how our codes, standards, and practices might develop, or be applied today, to support resilience-based goals.

Course will award 1.5 hours of continuing education

Contributors

David Bonowitz, S.E.

David Bonowitz is a structural engineer and a consultant on disaster risk reduction policy. His work links what engineers know to what policy-makers, decision-makers, and stakeholders need, consulting to city, state, federal, and international agencies. He chairs NCSEA's new Resilience committee and is the immediate past chair of its Existing Buildings committee. Bonowitz is a graduate of Princeton University, holds a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, is a recipient of the James M. Delahay Award, and is a Fellow Member of SEAOC.

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Contributors

David Bonowitz, S.E.