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2026 Functional Recovery Webinar Series - October 14

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (PDT)
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Category: SEAOC - Webinars
Series Information:

Functional recovery is moving from concept to practice, and SEAOC is bringing together the people shaping that shift. This six-part series walks through where the new standards are headed, how to set recovery goals with a client, and what implementation actually looks like on real projects. Sessions cover the development of functional recovery standards, building a recovery goal matrix, the link between functional recovery and community resilience, case studies applying FEMA P-58, QA/QC considerations, and structural health monitoring and non-destructive evaluation. 

Each session is worth 1 CE unit, 6 units for the full series. Credit is only available for attending the live session, so plan to join us in real time. 

  • Wednesday, October 7 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. PT
  • Wednesday, October 14 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. PT
  • Wednesday, October 21 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. PT
  • Wednesday, October 28 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. PT
  • Wednesday, November 4 12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m. PT
  • Wednesday, November 11 12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m. PT

Full series information: Functional Recovery Webinar Series - Structural Engineers Association of California 

Wednesday, October 14, 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. PT

Establishing A Functional Recovery Goal Matrix

Design is shifting away from safety-based objectives to resilience objectives that include enhanced goals of limiting damage, cost of repairs, and time to recovery of function.  Using the FEMA Pā€‘58 methodology, some engineers are already implementing resilience-based design for functional recovery on selected buildings in a performance-based context.  Improving the resilience of entire communities, however, will require standardized design requirements adopted into the building code that can be broadly applied to new (and existing) construction.

  This presentation will discuss the concepts and challenges associated with establishing a Functional Recovery Goal Matrix, describe past attempts at making assignments within such a matrix (including where the PUC ended up), and provide the high-level take-aways from the recently released NIST workshop report.