Construction Week

摘要

The American Society of Civil Engineers has published a new edition of its structural design standard, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures. ASCE/SEI 7-16 contains an entirely new chapter that covers tsunami design provisions-important to Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington. The standard also includes new seismic maps that reflect updated National Seismic Hazard Maps, new wind-speed maps that indicate reduced wind speeds for much of the U.S., and new snow maps that incorporate regional snow data for areas that previously required site-specific case-study zones.