First prize in EERI's Second Annual Graphics Competition was awarded to Steve Tipping, Barry Ralphs and Mike Korolyk of Tipping Mar & Associates at the 2009 Annual Meeting for their Animation of a Retrofit Design for a Building.

Project Description:
A 26-story steel frame structure built in the early 1900’s. It has a number of architectural aspects that make it well-worth preserving as an historical landmark including a marble-colored terra-cotta façade and decorative sculptures reminiscent of an array of fountains along the perimeter. The animation highlights the existing structural system and the proposed construction sequence for a seismic retrofit scheme which consists of a single post-tensioned, reinforced concrete core. The post-tensioning offers a significant benefit as a partial substitute for mild reinforcement, delivering recentering behavior without sacrificing strength or significant ductility. We studied and tested these benefits using nonlinear time-history analysis.

The Tipping Mar team used a variety of software packages to create the final animation, including AutoCAD2008 (model building), 3DS Max 2008 (animation) and CSi Perform 3D (nonlinear analysis).

Second Prize was awarded to David J. Leeds, Darryl Wong, Reed Helgens and Bob Reitherman of CUREE for their 2008 CUREE Calendar: Seismic Philately	Third Prize was awarded to Tom Schacher of SGEB (Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics) for both his Bhatar poster and for his illustrations for the Confined Masonry Training Manual