MCEER Partnerships
In an effort to further its research, education, and technology transfer
activities, MCEER engages in numerous external partnerships. These
play an indispensable role in the testing and development of earthquake loss-reduction
methodology, strategy and technology. To benefit different types of organizations,
MCEER's pursues a variety of partnership ventures, each tailored to benefit
its partners and to further the Center's mission and strategic objectives.
Partnerships with Industry and Users
Partnerships with Industry and Users
MCEER's Strategic Partnerships Network
to forge strategic alliances with
manufacturers, consultants, end users and other stakeholders in the adaptation,
development and implementation of new and emerging technologies to mitigate
earthquake losses -- this is a partner’s gateway to participation in
MCEER’s strategic process and other partnership ventures;
Users Advisory Groups
to create an immediate two-way information pipeline
between researchers in each of MCEER’s research programs and technical
representatives of manufacturers, consultants and users of Center research
products -- every member of MCEER’s Strategic Partnerships Network
serves on a program-specific Users Advisory Group;
Research Collaborators
to attract additional business, industry and government
support for research projects within MCEER's research thrusts -- this enables
partners to support those research endeavors within MCEER’s program,
that are vital to their own strategic interests;
Contract Research Clients
to provide a service to industry in the exploration
and testing of technologies and methodologies that are of significance
to reducing earthquake damage and losses, but are not necessarily related
to MCEER's current research thrusts;
Friends of MCEER
to allow for business and industry contributions that
support Center research, facilities, education and outreach programs;
Partnerships with NEHRP Agencies
NYCEM (New York Area Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation)
The New
York City Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation, an umbrella group major
stakeholders, has been created to develop a detailed seismic vulnerability
study for the New York City Region. NYCEM's chief sponsor is the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). MCEER is working in partnership
with FEMA Region II, and other groups such as Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, Princeton University and the City
University of New York to prepare this detailed seismic assessment.
Project Impact
Project Impact is a nationwide initiative, sponsored by
FEMA, that operates on a common-sense damage-reduction approach, basing
its work and planning on three simple principles: preventive actions must
be decided at the local level; private sector participation is vital; and
long-term efforts and investments in prevention measures are essential. FEMA
has worked with local communities to establish nearly 200 Project Impact
communities. One community which has elected to join Project Impact is the
City of Buffalo, NY, due to its potential for natural disasters as well as
terrorist acts as a major border crossing between the U.S. and Canada. MCEER
is one of the City's Project Impact Partners and assisted in the creation
of Buffalo's Project Impact web site.
Announcements
Facility Risk Consultants, Inc. Joins Partners Network
MCEER welcomes Facility Risk
Consultants to its Strategic Partnerships Network as a Premier Partner.
Facility Risk Consultants, Inc. offers engineering and risk management
consulting services, involving seismic analyses and design, regulatory
issues and compliance, performance-based facility criteria development,
building seismic retrofit design, seismic strengthening of equipment and
process tools, soil-structure interaction analyses, structural & financial
risk consulting, physical security and forensic engineering. Company engineers
have more than 25 years of industry experience providing services on large-scale
seismic related projects for commercial nuclear utilities, Department of
Energy facilities, and semiconductor manufacturing companies around the
world. Facility Risk Consultants has offices in Fremont, California and
Huntsville, Alabama. For more information about the company, visit its
website.
For more information on MCEER’s Strategic Partnerships Network, contact
at (716) 645-5151.
