Seismic Committee
Stephen Cohen, Chairperson Duties - Be a resource for the SEAU Board of Director. Help the Board further the goals of the organization in relationship to seismic and other issues.
- Help other committees where needed with seismic issues.
- Interface with the National Council of Structural Engineers (NCSE) on common seismic issues.
- Solicit input from both SEAU membership and its board of director to help the committee develop a SEAU
consensus guideline document defining appropriate requirements for the upgrading of existing building. Have the document-adopted statewide. Or recommend a developed or in development document that will provide the same type of result (a safer building environment in the State of Utah).
- Probe the possibility of developing a unified state approach to aid school districts manage and replace existing schools that are seismically challenged. Should schoolwork require that the EOR
be a SE? Should only SE's do school review? Is value engineering only a cost cutting activity or does it provide real value to the projects?
- Continue to monitor what California does in relationship to the IBC and seismic provisions.
- Develop a five-year plan of action (goals).
Minutes of Meetings (all files in Adobe Acrobat format) 1999 | 2000 |  January 28, 1999
March 2, 1999
April 6, 1999
June 3, 1999
June 16, 1999
| July 11, 2000
August 15, 2000
September 12, 2000
October 24, 2000
November 7, 2000
December 4, 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | January 9, 2001
February 6, 2001
March 8, 2001
April 4, 2001
June 5, 2001
September 19, 2001
October 3, 2001
November 7, 2001
December 5, 2001 |
January 9, 2002
February 6, 2002
March 6, 2002
April 3, 2002
May 8, 2002 |
Committe Activities
The Seismic Committee of SEAU is presently working on a position paper regarding the need for building regulations for existing buildings. This paper is the result of a request from the Utah Seismic Safety Commission to help address the risk of existing buildings. A draft copy is available in Adobe Acrobat format here. This paper has been updated and includes remarks
received as of 7/08/99 and is the final draft. Please direct comments to seau@seau.org. | 
