About this Website
This is a website to track the construction of seismically Resilient Mass Timber Buildings utilizing PT rocking wall system.
This is a passion project of me after completing the NHERI TallWood project to track the tech transfer and adoption.
This also serves as a reminder and education tool for developers and engineers interested in resilient building pathways in high seismic regions
Shiling Pei
Ph.D., P.E., F. SEI, F. ASCE
Professor
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.
Colorado School of Mines
Chair: ASCE Design of Wood Structures Committee
Email: spei@mines.edu
Linked In: Shiling Pei
X: @slpei
Dr. Shiling Pei received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University in December 2007 and joined the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines in Fall 2013. His research focused on traditional and innovative timber systems, multi-hazard mitigation through performance based engineering, numerical modeling of structural dynamic behavior, and large-scale dynamic testing. Dr. Pei received the 2012 ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for his work on seismic performance of mid-rise wood frame building. He recently led an NSF funded six-university collaborative research project to introduce resilient tall mass timber buildings to the U.S. His team completed the test of a 10-story full-scale wood building at NHERI@UCSD shake table, representing the world’s tallest full-scale building ever tested on a shake table.