Typical CUREE projects involve several universities, researchers, and students from different disciplines, as well as participation by professional engineers, earth scientists, planners, and architects.

	Simulation of the Seismic Performance of Nonstuctural Systems The George E. Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) research program of the National Science Foundation has awarded to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) a $3.6 million Grand Challenge grant to study the seismic performance of ceiling-piping-partition nonstructural systems. Nonstructural systems represent 75% of the value of buildings in the US exposed to earthquakes and have been estimated by FEMA to account for even slightly more than that in estimated future earthquake losses of the nation. CUREE will serve as the project manager to assist the PI with the overall management of the project and will coordinate the project education plan. [Read more]
	Building A Network Between Civil Engineers and Science Museums With funding from the Informal Science Education branch of the National Science Foundation, CUREE, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering, is conducting a project to build an ongoing network connecting civil engineers and science museums to the mutual advantage of both communities.
	Free Public Exhibit on Earthquake Engineering in San Francisco With funding from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, CUREE installed a free public earthquake engineering exhibit during the month of April 2006 to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING exhibit provides an up-close look at a number of important engineering elements. Along with the CUREE Earthquake Engineering exhibit was an original 1906 emergency housing cottage, provided by the Western Neighborhoods Project.
	CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project The CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project consists of coordinated engineering investigations and implementation activities whose objective is to significantly reduce earthquake losses to woodframe construction.  This category of construction includes larger-size apartment and condominium buildings as well as houses; non-residential (e.g. school and commercial) as well as residential buildings; and both existing and new construction. The project is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through a grant administered by the California Governors Office of Emergency Services.
	Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes The Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes (E3) is an entry-based collection, comprising a set of primary topics with cross-referenced explanations and sets of information related to earthquakes in the areas of geoscience, engineering, physics and mathematics. This is an NSF has funded partnership between CUREE, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and is structured as a collaboration with the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE).
	Earthquake Damage Assessment and Repair Project This research is done as part of the project "Assessment and Repair of Earthquake Damage in Residential Buildings" with major funding by the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) and administered by CUREE. The goal is to provide a fair, accurate, and well-documented "Guidelines for the Assessment and Repair of Earthquake Damage" conducted in the post-earthquake insurance adjusting context. CUREE's project manager is Dr. John Osteraas.
	Earthquake Architecture This Earthquake Architecture website responds to a suggestion from an informal luncheon meeting on August 3, 2004 of interested individuals at the 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Vancouver, Canada. Several interesting topics in this general area were discussed by those present, and ideas contributed by some who were unable to attend were also added into the conversation. Establishing a web forum to further the discussion and sharing of information was agreed up as an appropriate next step. [Read more]
	CUREE-Kajima Joint Research Program - Phase VI Now in our second decade of Kajima-funded projects, the CUREE-Kajima Research Program is a joint venture with the Kajima Corporation of Japan involving collaborative studies among researchers in the US and Japan. The topies researched have spanned many areas, but the theme of inter-university collaboration, and in this case international collaboration, remains the same.
	NEES Consortium Development Project The CUREE role in the development of NEES was as the NSF awardee for NEES Consortium Development. The National Science Foundation launched a major new research initiative known as the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) as part of a Major Research Equipment (MRE) program that extended to September 30, 2004. The three-year CUREE developmental role occurred in parallel with the development of new or enhanced NEES engineering laboratory facilities at 15 universities (“Equipment Sites”) and the creation of networking and other information technology products by the project called System Integration.
	SAC Steel Joint Venture The SAC Joint Venture was formed in mid-1994 with the specific goal of investigating the damage to welded steel moment frame buildings in the 1994 Northridge earthquake and developing repair techniques and new design approaches to minimize damage to steel moment frame buildings in future earthquakes. The directors of the three Joint Venture partners - the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC), the Applied Technology Council (ATC), and CUREe.

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