- Author
- Wright, R. N.
- Title
- Activities of the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Federal Construction Council. Retrofitting Buildings for Seismic Safety (Summary of a Symposium). Technical Report No. 109. November 20, 1990, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, Washington, DC, 26-32 p., 1991
- Keywords
- construction | safety | earthquakes
- Abstract
- The Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction (ICSSC) assists federal agencies involved in construction to develop and incorporate earthquake hazards reduction measures in their ongoing programs. ICSSC proposed an executive order for seismic safety in construction that became the basis for Executive Order 12699, "Seismic Safety of Federal and Federally Assisted or Regulated New Building Construction", dated January 5, 1990. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of October 20, 1990, calls for ICSSC to provide standards for existing federal and federally assisted buildings by 1994. ICSSC will participate in cooperative activities with the private sector to develop nationally recognized voluntary standards suitable for federal use in the assessment of the seismic resistance of existing buildings and the strengthening of those inadequately resistant.