Nearly half of Americans live and work in high seismic regions throughout the United States. These regions currently have $108 trillion of national building assets.
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NIBS congressional briefing
Apr 4, 2025 | 11:23 AM – 11:23 AM ET
Nearly half of all Americans live and work in high seismic regions throughout the United States. These regions currently have $108 trillion of national building assets and the work of NEHRP must continue to mitigate risk from earthquakes.
By Sara Barrett, Building Seismic Safety Council
The Building Seismic Safety Council’s Functional Recovery Planning Committee has published a report detailing the recommended scope, organization, and deliverables for developing functional recovery code provisions within the 2026 National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures.
Functional Recovery Planning Committee Report
Following the January 2021 FEMA P-2090 / NIST SP-1254 Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time (FEMA-NIST report) publication, as well as other notable efforts within the earthquake community, FEMA requested that BSSC’s formation of the PUC include a commitment to establish a specific Functional Recovery Task Committee in addition to other Issue Teams in order to advance the concepts of increased community resilience and improved post-earthquake functional recovery time within model building codes and structu
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A Step Forward FEMA p-2191
The NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures serves as the starting point for updates to U.S. seismic code provisions. The recommendations are reviewed, codified, and incorporated into standards language in the ASCE/SEI 7 standard Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures.
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Designing a structure to resist earthquakes requires several considerations. The loading is more severe, the permissible response will usually include damage to the structure, as well as the systems and components supported by the structure, and the levels of uncertainty in loading and response are greater than for ordinary loads.
By Charles Carter, BSSC Board Chair and President of AISC and Jiqiu (JQ) Yuan, Executive Director of Multi-Hazard Mitigation and Building Seismic Safety Councils, NIBS
The 2020 National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Recommended Seismic Provisions: Design Examples, Training Materials, and Design Flow Chart (FEMA P-2192) have been developed by the NIBS Building Seismic Safety Council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to illustrate and explain some of the new changes in the 2020 NEHRP Provisions, ASCE/SEI 7-22, and the material design standards referenced.
2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions: Flow Charts (FEMA P-2192, Volume III)
The Design Flow Charts contains a series of flow charts to help practicing engineers better understand the provisions in the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other
Structures (FEMA P-2082) and ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures. The goal of the charts is to highlight the key steps and provisions and the recommended order of implementation. The charts also identify the interrelationships and dependencies of the steps and provisions on one another.
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2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions: Training Materials (FEMA P-2192, Volume II)
The Training Materials contains a set of slides for use with Volume I Design Examples. They are developed to correspond to each chapter in the Volume I Design Examples to provide background information, highlights of relevant code changes, and important application details.
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