Dustin Cook presented a poster on his research about benchmarking seismic risk assessments from FEMA P-58 for Lloyd’s day at Rice University!

Dustin presented a poster on his research, which aims to benchmark seismic risk predictions from the FEMA P-58 method with empirical earthquake data and other existing risk assessment methodologies such as Hazus. The project has developed a set of over 55,000 FEMA P-58 performance models using the Seismic Performance Prediction Program (SP3) to compare with predictions from Hazus, and found good correlation between P-58 and Hazus for loss predictions of wood light frame structures.