USRC at 12NCEE
Every four years, national and international experts gather to discuss the latest in earthquake science, engineering, and risk reduction at a National Conference on Earthquake […]
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July, 2022
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July, 2022
USRC Sponsors AB 1721 – California Emergency Services Act, Which Provides $250 Million to Make Affordable Housing Safer
The US Resiliency Council’s mission is to improve community resilience in part through advocacy for policies that make our buildings resilient to natural disasters. […]
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May, 2022
Are You Positive Enough About Resilience?
In a previous post, I proposed that the challenge of getting more people to invest in resilience can be approached from different angles. On […]
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April, 2022
Like it or Not, We Have to Better Sell Resilient Design
Everybody knows they should wear a seatbelt. Some people don’t, but they probably feel like they’re going against other peoples’ expectations in those moments, on […]
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February, 2022
Design Evolution: Resilience and Regeneration Raise the Bar for Sustainable Design
The architectural community is evolving how it thinks about sustainable design. The fact that design trends evolve is nothing new, but it takes experimentation and […]
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January, 2022
What Modern Building Codes Do and Do Not Ensure
While a building designed for resilience is always a safe building, a building designed for life safety is not always a resilient building. In the […]
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December, 2021
USRC helps grow the demand for resilient design
Ron Mayes, co-founder of USRC, shares his thoughts on what the USRC offers the structural engineering profession: new and unique pathways to better communicate with […]
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November, 2021
Who’s afraid (or should be) of Problematic PMLs? All of us.
For those not yet aware, the USRC Transaction Rating is designed to provide owners and the financial industry with earthquake building performance information that can […]
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August, 2021
USRC Board Member Johanna Cunningham: What are we waiting for?
My names is Johanna Cunningham, a proud, six year United States Resiliency Council (USRC) board member. When asked to write about why I personally support […]
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July, 2021
The Costs of Investing in Mitigation Will Never be as High as after a Tragedy Strikes
Evan Reis today in Temblor’s online newsletter: “It is difficult to gather the public will to invest in protecting our older building stock. But the […]