About the author  ⁄ Kevin Aswegan, P.E.

Kevin Aswegan is an Associate at Magnusson Klemencic Associates. He is the leader of MKA’s Performance-Based Design Technical Specialist Team and has been instrumental in the MKA Foundation’s research efforts on PBWD. (kaswegan@mka.com)

The Next Frontier

With the release of the ASCE/SEI Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD) in August 2019, the industry has taken an initial step toward implementing a structural engineering technique similar to well-established Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD) for the other most common building environmental hazard, wind.

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