PEER Releases Updated Tall Building Seismic Design Guide

摘要

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) has released the second edition of its Tall Building Initiative Guidelines for Performance- Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings. Sponsored by AISC, Charles Pankow Foundation, Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE (SEI), Structural Engineers Association of California, Federal Emergency Management Agency and ACI Foundation (Concrete Research Council), it serves as an update to the first edition of the document, which was released in 2010.