Post-Covid Office Building Has Arrived

There are concerns as buildings open back up of the virus traveling through air conditioning and heating systems. Many buildings were under construction as the pandemic hit the United States in early 2020. At Chicago’s Fulton East, not only did construction not stop, but plans were changed mid-construction to integrate post-COVID-19 features intended to make the building safer for workers.

2020 Edition - NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions For New Buildings And Other Structures Volume II: Part 3 Resource Papers

This paper addresses the potential relationship between future NEHRP Provisions and resilience-based earthquake design, especially in the context of definitions and priorities established in federal law by the 2018 NEHRP reauthorization. It extends concepts proposed in Resource Paper 1 in Part 3 of the 2015 Provisions. Federal policy now calls for increasing earthquake resilience at the community scale and identifies building codes and standards as tools for doing so. Resilience relies on the timely recovery of the built environment.

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