Carlos Molina Hutt has been awarded a Natural Science’s and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant for a five-year project aimed at “Enhancing the seismic resilience of Canada’s built environment through comprehensive risk-based assessments of tall buildings.”

Carlos Molina Hutt, Sheri Molnar, Stephanie Chang and Katsu Goda have been awarded a New Frontiers in Research Fund – Innovation Grant for a two-year project titled “Reducing the catastrophic risk of a Cascadia megathrust earthquake in southwest British Columbia.”

Carlos Molina Hutt and Danielle Hutchings Mieler gave a talk titled “San Francisco Tall Buildings Study” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC as part of technical session on reducing risk in the existing building stock.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “San Francisco’s pre-Northridge steel moment frames” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC as part of an interactive workshop on challenges and opportunities to reduce risk and building resilience in existing buildings.

Carlos Molina Hutt moderated a technical session titled “Improving New and Existing Building Performance” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC as part of an interactive workshop on challenges and opportunities to reduce risk and building resilience in existing buildings.

Carlos Molina Hutt moderated an interactive workshop titled “Improving New Building Performance - Codes vs. Cost/Benefit Data vs. Resilience Ratings” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC as part of an interactive workshop on challenges and opportunities to reduce risk and building resilience in existing buildings.

Carlos Molina Hutt joined the Structural Engineers Association of British Columbia’s Education Committee.

Carlos Molina Hutt presented “San Francisco Tall Buildings Study: Performance Expectation for New Buildings” to the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California’s Resilience Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA (delivered via videoconference).

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Cross-border collaborations with the M9 Project at the University of Washington” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Fall Evening Session in Vancouver, BC.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Evaluating the seismic risk of San Francisco’s existing tall buildings” at the 4th International Symposium on Urban Disaster Mitigation in Beijing, China.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Performance-based earthquake engineering: research into practice” at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Evaluating the seismic risk of San Francisco’s existing tall buildings” at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Carlos Molina Hutt presented a paper titled “Comparison of seismic performance & recovery metrics for 1970s vs modern tall steel moment frame buildings” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, CA.

Carlos Molina Hutt presented a paper titled “Effects of basins during subduction earthquakes on the collapse fragility of existing tall steel buildings” at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, CA.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Evaluating the seismic risk of existing tall buildings at the Understanding Risk - British Columbia forum in Victoria, BC.

Carlos Molina Hutt gave a talk titled “Seismic risk modelling and tall buildings” at the Global Earthquake Model - OpenQuake Workshop in Vancouver, BC.

Carlos Molina Hutt joined the City of Vancouver’s Seismic Policy Advisory Committee.