Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction




PREFACE

NATO Science for Peace Project 977231 entitled Seismic Analysis and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings became operational in 2001 and was related to the seismic evaluation and retrofitting of existing buildings in Turkey and the Balkans. It was an ambitious project intended to transfer, adapt and implement and/or develop innovative technologies and methodologies for countries in this region – and, now that it has reached conclusion, appears to have fulfilled its task with great success. In fact, the achievements of this project were also given much prominence at the NATO Istanbul Summit attended by world leaders in June 2004. Many reports, proceedings and papers have been published as a result of the work conducted under this project. The project was launched with a ‘kick-off’ Workshop in Antalya in May 2001, where it was unanimously decided that as part of Subproject 4 named “Training and Dissemination of Results” the most important item apart from the production of suitable research publications and technical material in the area of the project was the organization of International [as well as national] Workshops to monitor the progress of the whole project and also the associated four subprojects. It was expected that formal submissions at such workshops would later be arranged to form part of the material to be published and disseminated from the project.


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