FEMA P-2055 Series of Documents
FEMA P-2055-2, Recommendations from Cordoning Earthquake-Damaged Buildings
The report is available for download here. This document was prepared as a supplement to FEMA P-2055, Post-disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guidance, Report on the Current State of Practice, including Recommendations Related to Structural and Nonstructural Safety and Habitability, published in 2019, available here.
As presented in Appendix A, Collapse Shadow Literature Review, the project team compiled a database of collapsed buildings to develop a basis for the collapse shadow and debris shadow recommendations presented in Chapter 3. The database version can be found here:
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10055796
If you have interest in contributing to the database, please click on the following Github repository and contact the Disaster Emergency Services committee of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California at [email protected].
FEMA P-2055-1, Guidance for Accelerated Building Reoccupancy Programs
This Guide was published by FEMA in January 2023 and presents recommendations, discussion of key issues, and template administrative documents for designing and managing programs that allow building owners to hire independent engineers authorized by jurisdictions to provide building-specific evaluation and official placarding.
The entirety of the Guide is available for download here as a pdf. This document was prepared as a supplement to FEMA P-2055, Post-disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guidance, Report on the Current State of Practice, including Recommendations Related to Structural and Nonstructural Safety and Habitability, published in 2019, available here.
This webpage presents downloadable word files for the template administrative documents in Appendix B through E. Jurisdictions interested in establishing their own programs are encouraged to use these as a starting point to prepare programs customized to their needs.
- Appendix B: Agreement to be signed between the Authority Having Jurisdiction, the building owner, and the building safety evaluator. This template also serves as the “application” into the program.
- Appendix C: Agreement to be signed between the building owner and building safety evaluators.
- Appendix D: Memorandum of Understanding to be signed between the Authority Having Jurisdiction and the building owner to establish policies and procedures, for use in an Advisory Evaluator program described in Chapter 3.2 of the Guide.
- Appendix E: Notice of Participation from the building owner to the Authority Having Jurisdiction, for use in an Advisory program described in Chapter 3.2 of the Guide.
FEMA P-2055, Post-disaster Safety Assessments
Following the passage of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) in October 2018, FEMA commenced work with the Applied Technology Council (ATC) under Task Order Contract HSFE60-12-D-0242 to develop a guidance document for structural integrity and livability of buildings after disasters, as requested by the 115th United States Congress (2017-2018).
This Guide summarizes and references best practice guideline documents, identifies recommended improvements and needs, and provides interim recommendations for issues without best practice guidance.