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SUMMARY:Evaluating the seismic risk of existing tall buildings in the West
 ern United States
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Carlos Molina Hutt\, Environmental and Geomatic Engin
 eering (CEGE) Department at University College London (UCL)\, England\nAbs
 tract : Tall buildings play an important role in the socio-economic activi
 ty of major metropolitan areas in the United States. In areas of high seis
 micity\, the design of many existing tall buildings followed historic code
 -prescriptive requirements that do not provide an explicit understanding o
 f performance during major earthquakes. This presentation will share the r
 esults of an evaluation of the seismic risk of these buildings using San F
 rancisco\, CA as a case study. By means of an inventory of the existing ta
 ll building stock\, an archetype building was developed to represent the s
 tate of design and construction practice from the mid-1970s to the mid-198
 0s. An intensity based assessment was carried out to evaluate performance 
 under a design level earthquake in terms of structural response\, economic
  losses and downtime. Furthermore\, conceptual retrofit strategies to achi
 eve increased levels of resilience were also evaluated. In order to benchm
 ark the performance of older existing tall buildings against modern seismi
 c design standards\, a comparative risk-based assessment was also carried 
 out to evaluate collapse risk and other performance metrics.\n\nBio : Carl
 os Molina Hutt is a member of academic staff in the Civil\, Environmental 
 and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) Department at University College London (U
 CL) where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses structural analysi
 s and design. Prior to joining UCL\, Carlos worked as a structural enginee
 r with Arup in New York\, where he gained experience in the design of nume
 rous high rise buildings in Mexico City which adopted a Performance Based 
 Seismic Design approach. Carlos is a registered Professional Engineer (PE)
  in the State of California in the United States of America and a Chartere
 d Engineer Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng MICE) in the
  United Kingdom.\nCarlos obtained his master’s degree from Stanford Univ
 ersity\, where he first gained interest Earthquake Engineering. When he st
 arted working as a structural engineer\, his continued interest in seismic
  engineering led him to enrol in a part-time engineering doctorate degree 
 at UCL co-supervised by Stanford University\, with Arup as industrial part
 ner. After four years of working at Arup\, Carlos relocated to UCL as a me
 mber of academic staff to continue his research work towards completion of
  his part-time PhD within the Earthquake and People and Interaction Centre
  (EPICentre) and to lecture in UCL’s MSc program in Earthquake Engineeri
 ng with Disaster Management\, as well as the BSc and MSc degree programs i
 n Civil Engineering.\nCarlos’ research encompasses computational methods
  emphasizing nonlinear simulation of structural performance in tall buildi
 ngs\, performance-based earthquake engineering and resilience-based design
 . Carlos has worked on collaborative research projects involving researche
 rs and practitioners from the United States\, China and the United Kingdom
 .
LOCATION:GCB330 https://plan.epfl.ch/GCB330
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