Learning the Lessons of the Past – Opportunities and Obstacles

Simon Bennett

Disaster Mitigation and Response in the Energy Industry

Ralph Bernstein

Advanced Information Technology for Disaster Management

John A. Kelmelis

Mitigating Natural Hazards: The New York State Approach

Radworth E. Anderson

Defining The Moment: Human Casualty Event Mitigation

Annette Sobel

Effect of Building Damage on Bomb Related Casualties

Eve Hinman

Louis Cheng

Innovative Technologies for Disaster Mitigation in Residential Units

E. Sarah Slaughter

A Model for Transferring Mitigation Technologies to Builders and Contractors

James S. Grichar

Safety Tutorial

John Covan

DC-9 T-Cap Inspection

Mike Ashbaugh

Risk Assessment Method—Property Analysis and Ranking Tool:  Risk Analysis Software for the Non-Risk-Analyst

Regina L. Hunter

Structural Behaviour and Risks for Exceptional Loadings

Christop Mayrhofer

Buildings: Design for Dampers

Douglas P. Taylor

Design Procedures for Retrofitting Columns of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings Subjected to Blast Loads

John E. Crawford

Designing And Altering Buildings To Resist Blast Loading

Peter D Smith

Understanding and Mitigating the Chem/Bio Threat to Facilities

Richard Griffith

Use of a First Principle Finite Element Code to Analyze the Response of Large Structures and Component Models Subjected to Blast Environments

Darren W. Tennant, Howard S. Levine, and Darell Lawver

Getting to Value

John Strothman

The Mitigation of Financial Failure

James Watson

Value Engineering

Douglas N. Mitten

Acquisition Management Under GPRA and Balanced Budgets

David L. Muzio

How Building Codes Contribute to Buildings’ Quality

Marvin Cantor

Comparison of International Building Codes Treatments to Multi Hazards affecting Tall Buildings

Mohammed M. Ettouney