EERI’s Student Leadership Council and the Applied Technology Council presented a pair of free webinars on FEMA P-749, Earthquake-Resistant Design Concepts: An Introduction to the Seismic Provisions for New Buildings. These webinars will review earthquake engineering concepts taught in school and help you understand how they bridge to design practice. Expect to learn essential information that will improve your Seismic Design Competition model design now and leave you better prepared for graduate school or industry in the future. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the seismic provisions for buildings and the role of building regulations in earthquake safety. Speaker: Ronald O. Hamburger, P.E., S.E., is a Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, author of the FEMA P-749 report, and one of the lead developers of this training.
