SEAOC Presidents Message

As incoming president of SEAOC I appreciate the opportunity to serve the organization that I have relied on, through its committees and seminars, to stay current on seismic and code issues over the last 30 years, and look forward to 2009 in spite of the current national mortgage and stock market turmoil.
 
We have ended the year in a financially sound condition. The main contribution was the success of The Structural/Seismic Design Manual and Seminars, and in association with NCSEA, individual examples of the SSDM are being presented by Webinars.
 
The Existing Building committee has begun producing an Existing Buildings Seismic Design Manual for the 2006 IEBC Appendix Chapters. It will provide examples of mitigating seismic risk for a variety of existing buildings that have performed poorly in past earthquakes
 
On-line Blue Book articles at seaoc.org continue to expand in number through the efforts of the Seismology Committee. Hard copy articles can now be downloaded from the site.
The Building Code Committee continues to work with NCSEA code committee on ICC code development.

The Wind Ad Hoc committee assisted CSBC to incorporate the IBC structural committee approved version of the wind design alternate for express adoption as amendment to CBC, Title 24, which will become effective on July 1, 2009.
 
As you can see the strength of the Association is in the Volunteers and those that serve on the committees giving up a portion of their time to share knowledge.  Without the support of the members, and in turn the support of their employers, the association could not provide members to committees that influence code on a national level.