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Forward-Looking Codes and Standards

August 17, 2026
Author(s)
Jayantha Obeysekera, Jennifer Goupil, Meg Ackerson, Joe Ackroyd, Kevin Borth, Michel Ghosn, Matt Gilbertson, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jack Hogan, Sihan Li, Mari Tye, Therese McAllister
Forward Looking Codes and Standards: Final Report includes a summary and synthesis from the four workshop reports: Future Hazards, Future Load Effects, Design Guidelines and Criteria, and Adaptation and Resilience. The final report includes a summary state

Forward-Looking Codes and Standards: Adaptation and Resilience

August 17, 2026
Author(s)
Jayantha Obeysekera, Jennifer Goupil, Meg Ackerson, Joe Ackroyd, JOSEPH BARSUGLI, Kevin Borth, Michel Ghosn, Matt Gilbertson, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jack Hogan, Sihan Li, Mari Tye, Therese McAllister
Forward Looking Codes and Standards: Adaptation and Resilience workshop report includes recommended research needs on the following themes: adaptive design for buildings and infrastructure systems, considering future hazards, material durability, and

Forward-Looking Codes and Standards: Engineering Design Guidelines and Criteria

August 17, 2026
Author(s)
Jayantha Obeysekera, Jennifer Goupil, Meg Ackerson, Joe Ackroyd, JOSEPH BARSUGLI, Kevin Borth, Michel Ghosn, Matt Gilbertson, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jack Hogan, Sihan Li, Mari Tye
Forward Looking Codes and Standards: Engineering Design Guidelines and Criteria workshop report includes recommended research needs on the following themes: nonstationary reliability, service life, design loads, resistance, and structural capacity

Forward-Looking Codes and Standards: Future Hazards

August 17, 2026
Author(s)
Jayantha Obeysekera, Jennifer Goupil, Meg Ackerson, Joe Ackroyd, JOSEPH BARSUGLI, Kevin Borth, Michel Ghosn, Matthew Gilbertson, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jack Hogan, Sihan Li, Mari Tye
Forward Looking Codes and Standards: Future Hazards workshop report includes recommended research needs on the following themes: confidence and uncertainty in hazard projections, local downscaling of global models, and conversion of hazard projections to

Forward-Looking Codes and Standards: Future Load Effects

August 17, 2026
Author(s)
Jayantha Obeysekera, Jennifer Goupil, Meg Ackerson, Joe Ackroyd, JOSEPH BARSUGLI, Kevin Borth, Michel Ghosn, Matt Gilbertson, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jack Hogan, Sihan Li, Mari Tye
Forward Looking Codes and Standards: Future Load Effects workshop report includes recommended research needs on the following themes: changes in hazard demand relative to historical basis, changes in structural capacity due to changes in material

Application of 360 Degree Imaging and Construction Progress Documentation Platforms in Large-scale Experimental Testing: A CFS10 Case Study

July 13, 2026
Author(s)
Amanpreet Singh, Matthew Speicher, Fidence Cyizere Rukundo, Benjamin Schafer, Tara Hutchinson
Large-scale experimental testing requires documentation of construction processes and damage throughout testing. Traditional photographic records, while useful, face challenges of organization and accessibility, and ease of use. To address these issues

Unification of Multi-Source and Multi-Fidelity Fragility Functions

April 4, 2026
Author(s)
Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Siamak Sattar
The derivation of fragility functions through nonlinear dynamic analysis is a domain that has garnered significant attention historically. The majority of prior research efforts have been focused on the ground motion record-to-record variability and the

Estimating the Costs and Performance of Enhanced Building Design: A Case Study of Functional Recovery for New Buildings

September 17, 2025
Author(s)
Sherief Elsibaie, Yating Zhang, Juan Fung, Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar, Peter Morris, Henry Burton, David Welch, Kamiar Anaraki
This report details the development of different structural design building archetypes and other seismic enhancements, the cost estimation process applied to those archetypes, and the economic implications and estimation of differing functional recovery

State of the Art and Research Needs in Design for Tornadoes: Structural Engineering Institute Workshop Report

September 30, 2024
Author(s)
Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Shane Crawford, Alex Griffin, Cherylyn Henry, Marc Levitan, Franklin Lombardo, John van de Lindt, Peter Vickery
The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has a long history of working with NIST and other federal partners to improve ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criterial for Buildings and Other Structures, the national loading standard. Following

Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry

September 20, 2024
Author(s)
Noah Last, Joshua D. Kneifel, Amy Costello, Catherine Houska, Katherine Morris
ASTM International's committee on sustainability (E60), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hosted the virtual "Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry" on October 10-11, 2023

Construction Quality and Assurance for Functional Recovery Design

September 6, 2024
Author(s)
Jakub Valigura, Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar
As part of the ACI 374A Subcommittee on Design of Reinforced Concrete Structure for Functional Recovery, the authors held six expert panel discussions with experts in various aspects of building design and construction. The goal of the discussions was to
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