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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, Therese McAllister
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, Therese McAllister
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, Therese McAllister
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

Workshop on Incorporating Climate Change Data in U.S. Building Codes and Standards

March 8, 2023
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Therese P. McAllister, Andrew K. Persily, Scott Weaver, James Whetstone, Jiann C. Yang, Michael Kuperberg, Sumant Nigam, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas
NIST hosted a workshop to advance the availability of climate information sought by organizations developing standards, model building codes, and voluntary certifications by convening interactions between the building codes and climate science communities.

Determination of Individual Building Performance Targets to Achieve Community-Level Social and Economic Resilience Metrics

May 2, 2022
Author(s)
Wanting (Lisa) Wang, John W. van de Lindt, Brad Hartman, Harvey Cutler, Jamie Kruse, Therese P. McAllister, Sara Hamideh
The retrofit of wood-frame residential buildings is a relatively effective strategy to mitigate damage caused by windstorms. However, little is known about the effect of modifying building performance for intense events such as a tornado and the subsequent

Social and Economic Components of Resilient Multi-Hazard Building Design

October 3, 2019
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung, Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Therese McAllister, Steven McCabe
In 2017, U.S. damages from natural hazard events exceeded $300B, suggesting that current targets for building performance do not sufficiently mitigate loss. The significant costs borne by individuals, insurers, and government do not include impacts from

A FULLY INTEGRATED MODEL OF INTERDEPENDENT PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

July 11, 2019
Author(s)
Bruce Ellingwood, John W. van de Lindt, Therese P. McAllister
While many definitions of resilience can be found in the literature and in policy statements, common to these definitions is the notion that resilience is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from

Increasing Community Resilience Through Improved Lifeline Infrastructure Performance

July 11, 2019
Author(s)
Chris Rojahn, Laurie Johnson, Veronica Cedillos, Thomas O'Rourke, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
The concept of community resilience is complex and multi-dimensional, relying upon social science, engineering, earth sciences, economics, and other disciplines to improve the way communities prepare for, resist, respond to, and recover from disruptive

Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
The intent of current building codes for typical commercial and residential buildings is to safeguard against loss of life to building occupants by minimizing the probability of structural collapse during natural hazard events. However, current codes do

Performance-based design to achieve community resilience

December 21, 2018
Author(s)
Bruce Ellingwood, Naiyu Wang, James Harris, Therese P. McAllister
The resilience of communities depends on the performance of the built environment and on supporting social, economic and public institutions on which the welfare of the community depends. The built environment is susceptible to damage due to a spectrum of

Modeling Community Resilience: Update on the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and the Computational Environment IN-CORE

November 15, 2018
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox, Walter G. Peacock, Harvey Cutler, Maria Dillard, Jong Lee, Lori Peek, Judith Mitrani-Reiser
Community resilience is often defined as the ability of a community to prepare for, absorb, and recover rapidly from a hazard event. In 2015, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the Center for Risk-Based Community
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