"Having a building designed to withstand seismic activity may lessen the damage, just as having a seaworthy boat weathers a storm better than a leaky scow."
—from the monograph
The primary purpose of Seismic Mitigation is to illustrate what building designers can do to reduce the effects of earthquakes, both in terms of injury to occupants and significant damage to the building itself.
Features
- The monograph considers a basic fact: Informed design decisions can lead to better performance by structures during earthquakes. Seismically savvy design depends on direct observations of actual building performance in disastrous earthquakes.
- Two presentations underpin the monograph. The first is a basic primer on design done largely in the absence of informed concern for earthquakes.
- The second presentation consists of the examination (in the form of a running critique) of a set of buildings that represent a range of common design situations.
- A variety of figures and photographic evidence rounds out the information provided in this always timely publication.
Author
James Ambrose is a Los Angeles-based consulting architect, structural engineer and author. He recently retired as a professor of architecture from the University of Southern California. Ambrose also wrote the Subsurface Conditions monograph with Dov Kaminetzky and Luther Bourda.
Continuing Education and Cost Information
Monograph and Quiz:
10 PDUs and 10 AIA LUs in Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) and Sustainable Design (SD)
$250 ($150 for current NCARB Record holders)
79 pages
