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Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
2019 EERI Annual Meeting
- Meeting Theme: Reaching Resilience Faster by Working Together
- Meeting Location: JW Marriott Parq Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada
- Meeting Dates: March 5 - 8, 2019
- Meeting Summary:
EERI's 2019 Annual Meeting took place March 5-8 in Vancouver, Canada. The Institute welcomed more than 300 meeting attendees and 300 SDC participants representing a wide range of disciplines while sharing a common goal, reducing earthquake risk.
The technical program was built around the meeting theme, "Reaching Resilience Faster by Working Together". 4 plenary sessions, 17 special sessions, and 1 poster session took place during the meeting. Session topics included: Public Education, Emergency Preparedness, and Understanding Risk, Improving New and Existing Building Performance, Post-Earthquake Response and Recovery, Utilities and Infrastructure; including Geotechnical, Policy, Insurance and Funding Incentives, Resilience Plans, and New Technologies and Instrumentation.
The program also included an LFE Reconnaissance workshop, a FEMA P-2006 Workshop, a University of British Columbia lab tour, a bus tour of retrofitted schools, and a self-guided tour of notable structures in Vancouver. During this meeting, the Learning From Earthquakes Endowment Fund was also publicly announced.
- Meeting Printed Program PDF: https://eeri.org/images/meetings/2019AM/2019AM-Printed-Program.pdf
- Meeting Organizers:
Organizing Committee:
- Kate Thibert, Read Jones Christoffersen (Co-Chair)
- John Sherstobitoff, Ausenco (Co-Chair)
- Monrit Chatha, Read Jones Christoffersen
- Tuna Onur, Onur Seemann Consulting
- Micah Hilt, City of Vancouver
- Lalinda Weerasekara, WSP
- Peter Smillie, Public Works Canada
- Jay Lewis, Terra Firm Earthquake Preparedness
- Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, UBC
- Carlos Ventura, UBC
- Heidi Tremayne, EERI
- Rebecca Singh, EERI
- Maggie Ortiz-Millan, EERI
- Jessica Shoubridge, Thrive Consulting
- Carlos Molina Hutt, UBC
- Teron Moore, Ocean Networks Canada
- Steven Bibby, BC Housing
Young Members Committee Liaisons:
- Guillermo Diaz-Fanaz, WSP
- Anahid Behrouzi, Cal Poly
- Maria Koliou, Texas A & M University
- Meeting Sponsors:
Sponsors:
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- California Earthquake Authority
- Trimble
Wednesday Lunch Sponsor:
- Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia
Thursday Lunch Sponsor:
- Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering
Coffee Break Sponsors:
- RJC Engineers
- Structural Engineers Association of British Columbia
Seismic Design Competition Sponsors
- Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Kinemetrics
- Degenkolb Engineers
- California Earthquake Authority
- Oregon State University College of Engineering
- Trimble
- UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling
- Meeting Exhibitors:
- Applied Technology Council
- BraceLok
- Dynamic Isolation Systems
- EERI
- EQ Restraint Technologies, Inc.
- FEMA
- GeoSig Ltd.
- Golder Associates
- Haselton Baker
- ImageCat, Inc.
- ITT, Inc.
- Kinemetrics, Inc.
- Lettis Consultants International, Inc.
- Mageba
- NIST/NHERP
- Quanser
- Ringfeder Power Transmission Group
- Simpson Strong-Tie
- Taylor Devices
- Trimble
- WSP