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    Population-Calibrated Seismic Safety:
    Recalibrating from hazard-based compliance to population-level safety
        📅July 7th (TUE)
    📍Online (GotoWebinar)
    🕑 Slot 1 - 12:00PM (MYT) | 13:30PM (ACT) | 16:00PM (NZ)
    🕑Slot 2 - 10:00AM (CEST) | 9:00AM (BST) | 15:00PM (ICT)
    💻Duration: 60min - 90min
    Session Overview

    Why does better engineering not always produce safer buildings?

     

    Seismic codes are stronger than ever. Yet in many parts of the world, earthquake losses have not fallen proportionally. The problem is not the engineering. It is whether the engineering reaches the building that actually gets constructed. 

     

    This session follows a direct path: starting from that paradox, tracing where seismic safety breaks down in the delivery chain, introducing the Population-Calibrated Seismic Safety framework, and ending with what engineers can actually do differently. 


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    Who Should Attend
    • Structural and seismic engineers working on public buildings, schools, hospitals, or housing projects where design decisions must account for what can realistically be built and maintained.

    • Engineers practicing in high-seismicity countries where construction capacity, local materials, and budget constraints shape safety outcomes as much as the code itself.

    • Engineers responsible for seismic design at scale, across large building programs or national infrastructure, where code compliance alone does not guarantee that safety reaches the people who need it. 
     

    Learning Objectives

    📌When Code Compliance Is Not Enough 

    Understand why a code-compliant design can still leave communities vulnerable, and what determines whether seismic safety actually holds in the buildings that get built.

     

    📌The Coverage and Prescription Trade-off 

    Recognise how increasing design complexity can reduce consistent implementation across large or resource-constrained building programs, and how to make better decisions within those limits. 

     

    📌The Population-Calibrated Seismic Safety Framework 

    Apply a practical framework to assess whether a seismic safety strategy is affordable, buildable, and reliably executable within the construction systems your projects actually operate in. 

    Speaker
    Jitendra Bothara
    Jitendra Bothara
    Director, ResiPro International Engineering Ltd | New Zealand

    With over 30 years of field experience across more than twenty countries, Dr. Bothara has advised governments, the World Bank, UNDP, and the Asian Development Bank on seismic safety, disaster risk reduction, and post-earthquake reconstruction.

     

    He is a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and a Chartered Professional Engineer, with a career focused on translating technical knowledge into safety systems that work at scale in real-world construction conditions.