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[Project #] 1382005 [PI Name] Greg Deierlein [Institution] Stanford [Title] 
Benchmarking Performance of New RC Frame Building The objective of this project is to assess the seismic performance provided by modern design provisions for reinforced-concrete buildings. By applying the PEER PBEE assessment methodology to a collection of building designs, the project will provide insight on how to extend the building-specific assessment methodology for individual buildings to assess building code provisions, which are used as the basis for design. Data from this research will serve a number of goals, including: (a) gage whether design standards provide the expected performance across the range of building configurations permitted by design codes, (b) contribute to establishing appropriate performance targets for performance-based design of new buildings, (c) provide a benchmark against which new innovative systems can be judged, (d) provide data for improved building fragility models as input for loss simulations of large geographic regions, and (e) demonstrate the benefits of the PEER PBEE assessment method as compared to the current state-of-art in engineering practice (e.g., FEMA 356). A related objective is to compare the collapse safety of modern (2003) buildings with ones designed according to the 1967 UBC code, which are viewed as seismically deficient according to modern codes.
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