WAsafe Building Safety Evaluations (ATC 20/45 Plus)
The Structural Engineers Association of Washington is offering an in-person, full-day training on post-disaster building safety evaluation procedures and WAsafe, Washington State's program for post-disaster volunteer responders.
This training is a must for engineers, architects, building inspectors, plans examiners, and other construction industry professionals who are committed to using their unique professional skills to assist following a catastrophic event. Participants will learn how to properly assess buildings for safe occupancy following a major earthquake, flood, or wind event. The training incorporates material from internationally recognized standards: ATC-20 (Post-Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings) and ATC–45 (Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods), The class also covers response to landslides, fires, and other hazards, with an emphasis on hazards in Washington state. Real events and examples will be used.
Students will also be introduced to the statewide process for volunteer emergency worker enrollment and responder dispatch through the WAsafe program. Taking this course is one of the requirements for those who wish to enroll in the WAsafe registry as a Building Safety Evaluator, or for those whose enrollments are expiring and want to renew.
This class is eligible for professional continuing education credits: 7.5 PDHs (engineers), 7.5 LUs/HSW (architects), or 7.5 CEUs (building department professionals).
This class is being presented in conjunction with the Snohomish County Public Utility District, in the Auditorium at the PUD's Electric Building Headquarters in Everett.
Instructors: Erik Bishop, PE, SE, and Paul Brallier, PE, SE, have each taught building safety evaluation classes for more than 20 years. They apply their international experience in evaluating earthquake-damaged buildings in Chile, Mexico, Japan, and Turkey to their teaching.
ATC Field Manuals can be ordered during registration, Although they are optional for the training, the Field Manuals are intended to be carried for reference by building safety evaluators working in the field. As a minimum, we recommend those who intend to do field work have at least the ATC 20-1 Postearthquake safety evaluation of buildings.
