What to Expect

• Welcome reception with beer tasting and pub fare
• Four tracks of technical sessions featuring research, innovation, and business development
• Opening and Closing Keynote sessions 
• Expo with over 60 industry partners
• Reception and Dinner at High Camp with breathtaking views
• Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards reception
• An amazing evening organized by our long time partner sponsor, CSI
• Golf tournament, Foot Golf, and Drone Race

FEMA/BSSC 2020 NEHRP Provisions Session

Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) organized a session at the 2019 SEAOC Convention. The BSSC PUC members presented some of the important code change proposals that will be included in the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures.

• The 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions — An Overview by David Bonneville and JQ Yuan
• USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) and Design Ground Motion Maps for 2020 NEHRP Recommended Provisions by Sanaz Rezaeian and Nicolas Luco
• Proposed Multi–Period Response Spectra and Ground Motion Requirements of 2020 NEHRP Provisions and ASCE 7–22 by Charles A. Kircher
• Proposed Nonstructural Seismic Design Force Equations by Bret Lizundia
• Ductile Coupled Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls and Coupled Composite Steel Plate Shear Walls as Distinct Seismic Force–Resisting Systems by S. K. Ghosh
• New Provisions for Seismic Design of Diaphragms by Kelly Cobeen