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A 6-part series on NHERI TallWood Test 2023. A full-scale ten-story mass timber building was tested on the NHERI@UC San Diego shake table as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded NHERI TallWood Project. The research team and their industry collaborators designed and constructed the building with goal of achieving resilient performance, which requires the building to be damage-free under design level hazard and quickly repairable for MCE events. After over 80 consecutive earthquake tests, the structural system of the building remained fully functional, with only repairable damage to non-structural finishes and stair handrails. This seminar series will reveal key innovations and details utilized in the NHERI TallWood building that made this resilient performance possible. Background and major findings from the test program will be discussed first, followed by detailed presentations on the modeling and design methods for the mass timber rocking wall lateral system. Performance and design of the low-damage non-structural façade system and stair system will be presented, as well as a family of drift-compatible gravity connection system that hold the building up and plumb after repetitive earthquake attacks.