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Functional Recovery Performance Targets Workshop Report

September 30, 2025
Author(s)
Lucy Arendt, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Michael Valley, Divya Chandrasekhar, Laurie Johnson, Ryan Kersting
Held in October 2024, the Workshop on Functional Recovery Performance Targets was hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and managed by the Applied Technology Council (ATC-169). The workshop convened 48 interdisciplinary

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

Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

February 10, 2025
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook
In the U.S., building codes and standards have been developed to reduce the likelihood of building collapse but do not address the loss of building functions or recovery times due to earthquakes. When scaled to the community level, negative consequences

Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

January 3, 2025
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Sandesh Aher
This research brief provides a research summary and research advancement details for the functional recovery post-earthquake performance objective being advanced by NIST's Engineering Laboratory. A current update on the status of functional recovery

Systematic Review of Embodied Carbon Assessment and Reduction in Building Life Cycles

September 18, 2024
Author(s)
Yating Zhang, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung
The building and construction sector is the largest carbon emitter, accounting for more than one-third of annual global emissions. The emissions can be divided into operational and embodied carbon, associated with building operations and building materials

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

ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: Comparison of the Nonlinear Dynamic Procedure with Other Evaluation Methods

May 22, 2023
Author(s)
Andrew Sen, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Tarbin Basnet, Russell Berkowitz, Ariel Creagh, Wassim Ghannoum, Ayse Hortacsu, Insung Kim, Hamid Koodiani, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Adolfo Matamoros, Farzad Naeim, Siamak Sattar, Rob Smith
The U.S. consensus standard for seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings, ASCE/SEI 41, establishes provisions for seismic analysis procedures that vary in complexity and fidelity. Although ASCE/SEI 41 provides detailed nonlinear dynamic
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