EERI Utah Board of Directors Meeting #7
Meeting #7 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 08-27-13. Items covered include the NGA West Project, 2013 UGS Basin and Range Summit III, the Liquefaction Short Course, and Meet the Mentor Fall Seminar. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
13-8-27 EERI Utah Board meeting minutes
EERI Utah Board of Directors Meeting #6
Meeting #6 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 05-23-13 to an earthquake engineering short course. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
13-5-23 EERI Utah Board meeting minutes
EERI Utah Board of Directors Meeting #5
Meeting #5 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 03-28-13 to discuss possible fall activities. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
13-3-28 EERI Utah Board meeting minutes
EERI Utah, Chapter Meeting #4, Organizing Committee
Meeting #4 of the EERI Utah Chapter Organizing Committee was held on 02-27-13. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
Organizing Committee Meeting 2-27-13
EERI Utah, Board of Directors Meeting #4
Meeting #4 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 02-21-13. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
02-21-13 EERI Board Meeting #4
Town Hall Meeting – Utah Earthquakes and You
The Utah chapter of EERI invites the public to attend a townhall meeting about Utah Earthquakes and You – It’s Personal.
The meeting will be held on April 17, 2013 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at
Radisson Hotel Downtown – Wasatch Ballroom
215 West South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
Please see the attached filer for more information.
Organizing Committee Meeting #4
Friends and Colleagues:
At last night’s Board of Director’s meeting, it was decided to extend an invitation to all current Utah EERI members to attend our next planned meeting of the Utah Chapter Organizing Committee. This will be held at 6:00 PM, February 27, at the Meldrum Civil Engineering Building at the U. The actual room will be determined by the number of expected attendees.
We particularly need our Organizing Committee members to be there, if at all possible.
At this meeting we want to discuss our progress to date, our Vision and Goals, as well as committee structure. We also want to find what our members expectations are and what is the best way to meet them.
We had a very good turnout for our first activity, the Joyner Lecture, and we certainly want this to continue. So we also want your input on what our next activities should be.
To help us plan on room size, please respond to this e-mail by Monday, Feb 25, letting me know if you will attend. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible!
Best regards,
Pete McDonough, P.E.
EERI Utah, Board of Directors Meeting #3
Meeting #3 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 12-13-12. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
12-12-13 EERI Utah Board meeting minutes
EERI Utah, Board of Directors Meeting #2
Meeting #2 of the EERI Utah Chapter was held on 10-25-12. The minutes from the meeting are attached.
12-10-25 EERI Utah Board meeting minutes
EERI Joyner Lecture – January 16, 2013
The EERI Utah Chapter is pleased to announce the EERI Joyner Lecture will be Presented at the University of Utah on the evening of January 16, 2013. See attached flier and map.
Guest Speaker: Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday Jan. 16th at 7PM
U. of Utah Warnock Engineering Building (WEB), Room L104
Topic: Building Near Faults
ABSTRACT
Designing facilities very near active faults presents unique challenges that require an interdisciplinary approach. Sound engineering and earth science principles can be employed to address the hazards associated with surface fault rupture and near-fault ground shaking. Robust procedures exist for evaluating the consequences of permanent and transient ground movements. Whereas their use in designing systems to accommodate ground movements due to a variety of phenomena is widely accepted, their use in areas containing surface traces of active faults is often questioned, even when the anticipated ground movements are minimal. Active faults cannot always be avoided, nor should they be avoided when their hazard is far less than other hazards. We can live with the earth’s faults.
Jonathan D. Bray, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at UC Berkeley was selected as the 2012 Joyner Lecturer. He will deliver his lecture at the SSA Annual Meeting in April 2012 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Bray was chosen because of his scientific and engineering research and exchange of information regarding liquefaction effects, the effects of surface fault rupture, and the safe siting and design of facilities near active faults. He has extensive experience serving at the interface of earthquake science and earthquake engineering. Dr. Bray is the chair of the NSF-sponsored Geo-Engineering Engineering Reconnaissance program, which has a goal to improve post-earthquake understanding and turn disaster into knowledge. He has published many papers on the interactions of buildings on or near surface faulting events. He has been recognized by several organizations for his work to improve seismic safety.
