Symposium on “Preparing for earthquakes and cascading hazards”
Hosted by National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Building Research Institute (BRI)

Overview:
While technological developments related to earthquake‐resistant construction of buildings aswell as urban and architectural fire prevention have been promoted for a long time, in the 2011
Great East Japan Earthquake there were many buildings where it became difficult to continue
business even though there was little structural damage, and buildings where fire safety issues
arose due to damaged fireproof partitions and sprinkler equipment. Also, various issues became
apparent, such as damage from subsidence, large‐scale fires caused by tsunamis, multiple
outbreaks of fires in the capital region which was far removed from the epicenter, and thematerialization of commuters who were unable to return home from work. Endeavoring toward
not just a reduction in building structural damage but also the assurance of business andresidential continuity and maintenance of fire safety is not only an important issue for Japan,
where the occurrence of the Tokyo Inland Earthquake and the Nankai Trough Earthquake are
anticipated in the near future, but also a common issue for countries where earthquakes occur
starting with Southeast Asia and China, in which urbanization is rapidly progressing. Thissymposium will introduce the latest research results including examples from overseas and willconsider the shape that policies should take for reducing damage from earthquakes and cascading
hazards such as fires.
Date and time: Friday, November 11, 2016 3:00pm – 6:00pm Open from 2:30pm
Venue:
Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor of GRIPS (See map below) (Max. 300 persons)Language:
Japanese/English (simultaneous translation provided)
Hosted by:
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Building Research InstituteSupported by: The Japan Building Disaster Prevention Association, Japan Association for Fire
Science and Engineering
Program:
3:00‐3:10pm
Greetings by hostHitoshi IEDA
Professor, GRIPS; Professor‐emeritus, University of Tokyo
Yasuo OKUDA
Director, Dept. of Structural Engineering, BRI
3:10‐5:50pm Presentations
Moderator: Mamoru KOHNO: Professor, Tokyo University of Science
Tatsuya IWAMI (Senior Research Engineer, Dept. of Housing and Urban Planning, BRI)
“Summary of the damages by recent earthquakes and post‐earthquake fires under the strong wind”

Mike Stannard (Chief Engineer, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, New Zealand)“Direction for mitigating the consequences of earthquake and cascading hazards in New Zealand”

Tomohisa MUKAI (Senior Research Engineer, Dept. of Structural Engineering, BRI)
“Development of performance based seismic design for new buildings with post‐earthquake functionaluse ‐ Utilizing a lesson learnt from the Great East Japan Earthquake”

Brian Meacham (Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)“Post‐Earthquake Fire Performance of Buildings: Outcomes from Full‐Scale Experiments of Reinforced
Concrete and Cold‐Formed Steel (CFS) Panel Constructed Building Specimens Subjected to Ground
Motion Tests Followed by Compartment Fires”

Junichi SUZUKI (Senior Researcher, Fire Standards Div., NILIM)“Development of an evaluation method for buildings' principal elements during/after an earthquake fire”

5:50‐6:00pm

Concluding remarks

Access to GRIPS(7‐22‐1 Roppongi, Minato‐ku, Tokyo)

Free of charge (Pre‐registration required)Contact: Institute of International Harmonization for
Building and Housing (IIBH) (E‐mail: grips@iibh.org)

Profile of Moderator and Presenters
Mamoru KOHNO
Professor, Tokyo University of Science
BS. Eng., MS. Eng. Kyoto University, Dr. Eng. Nagoya University. He has morethan 30 years of professional career at Nagoya University, BRI, NILIM andcurrent position at TUS which he joined in 2009. His research area includes
structural reliability, performance‐based fire safety standards, andpost‐earthquake fire safety issues of high‐rise apartment buildings.
Tatsuya IWAMISenior Research Engineers, Dept. of Housing and Urban Planning, BRI
Tatsuya Iwami received a master's degree of Engineering from Kobe
University in 1997. He has researched a modeling and risk analysis of city
fire since 1997 at Building Research Institute and National Institute for Landand Infrastructure Management. He is a staff of Dept. of Housing and Urban
Planning, BRI, JAPAN.
Mike Stannard
Chief Engineer, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
BE (Civil), MBA, FIPENZ. Mike has extensive New Zealand and international
experience in building regulation, and engineering, construction, andquality management. He has been the Ministry’s lead for technical work
relating to the Canterbury earthquake recovery and implementing lessons
across New Zealand.
Tomohisa MUKAI
Senior Research Engineer, Dept. of Structural Engineering, BRI
Dr. Mukai received his Ph.D. in Faculty of Science and Engineering fromTokyo University of Science in 2003, M.S. from Tokyo University of Sciencein 1999. His research focus on the performance based seismic design forbuildings. He is a staff of Dept. of Structural Engineering, Building ResearchInstitute, JAPAN.
Brian Meacham
Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS.EE and MS.FPE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, PhD in Risk &Regulatory Policy, Clark University. Brian has over 30 years of professional
experience. Prior to joining WPI in 2008 his positions included Principal atArup, Technical Director Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), and fire
safety engineer in the USA and Europe.
Junichi SUZUKI
Senior Researcher, Fire Standards Div., NILIM
Jun‐ichi Suzuki received a doctorate in Eng. in 2007 from Tokyo University ofScience. He has researched structural fire safety for 15 years. He joined
Dept. of Fire Engineering, Building Research Institute, Japan in 2010. He has
worked for NILIM since 2014 and been involved in amendments to fire
safety regulations.