2020 Edition - NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions For New Buildings And Other Structures Volume II: Part 3 Resource Papers

This paper addresses the potential relationship between future NEHRP Provisions and resilience-based earthquake design, especially in the context of definitions and priorities established in federal law by the 2018 NEHRP reauthorization. It extends concepts proposed in Resource Paper 1 in Part 3 of the 2015 Provisions. Federal policy now calls for increasing earthquake resilience at the community scale and identifies building codes and standards as tools for doing so. Resilience relies on the timely recovery of the built environment.

2020 Edition - NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions For New Buildings And Other Structures Volume I: Part 1 Provisions, Part 2 Commentary

The NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures (FEMA P-2082) presents the minimum recommended requirements necessary for the design and construction of new buildings and other structures to resist earthquake ground motions throughout the United States. The objectives of these provisions are to provide reasonable assurance of seismic performance that will:

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