9.00 - 9.20 Opening of the conference Richard Yelland, Head of the OECD Programme on Educational Building Room D, OECD Château 9.20 - 9.40 Presentation of the conference Brian Tucker, President, GeoHazards International (GHI), United States 9.40 - 10.00 Welcome by the meeting Chair Wilfred Iwan, Director, California Institute of Technology, Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, United States Theme 1: Acknowledging the importance of improving seismic safety in schools 10.00 – 10.30 Barry McGaw, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break Theme 2: Recognising the obstacles to achieving this objective 11.00 – 11.20 Earthquake vulnerability of school buildings in Algeria Fouad Bendimerad, Technical Director, Risk Management Solutions, United States 11.20 – 11.40 Seismic safety in Italian schools Mauro Dolce, Professor of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy 11.40 – 12.00 Seismic safety of school buildings in Turkey: Obstacles impeding the achievable? Polat Gülkan, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, Disaster Management Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 12.00 – 12.20 Seismic risk in schools: The Venezuelan project Oscar Lopez, Director of the Institute of Materials and Structural Models, Central University of Venezuela, Faculty of Engineering, Venezuela 12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Restaurant au Parc de la Muette 14.30 - 15.30 General discussion Theme 3: Defining seismic safety principles for schools 15.30 – 16.00 Fundamental concepts and principles for assuring acceptable performance of schools and the educational system Dennis Bellet, Chief Structural Engineer, Division of the State Architect, United States 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 – 17.30 Discussion to identify seismic safety principles 17.30 – Conference cocktail George Marshall Room, OECD Château Earthquake Safety in Schools Monday 9 February 2004 An experts’ meeting organised by the OECD Programme on Educational Building (PEB) and GeoHazards International (GHI) Theme 4: Assessing vulnerability and risks to schools and educational systems 9.00 – 9.20 The translation of earthquake hazard mitigation measures from one country to another: A case study Christopher Rojahn, Executive Director, Applied Technology Council (ATC), United States Room D, OECD Château 9.20 – 9.40 Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule Tom Tobin, Manager, Tobin and Associates, United States Anselm Smolka, Head of Geological Risk Research, Munich Reinsurance Co., Germany 9.40 – 10.00 Protecting schools from earthquakes in Greece Emmanuel Baltas, Managing Director, School Building Organisation S.A., Greece 10.00 – 11.00 General discussion 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break Theme 5: Identifying strategies and programme approaches for improving school seismic safety 11.30 – 11.50 Strengthening existing buildings to resist earthquakes: Progress in European countries with reference to school buildings Robin Spence, Professor of Architectural Engineering, Cambridge University, United Kingdom 11.50 – 12.10 Creating demand and supporting the local experts Richard Sharpe, Director of Earthquake Engineering, Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner, Ltd, New Zealand 12.10 – 12.30 Evaluating earthquake retrofitting measures for schools: A demonstration cost-benefit analysis Andrew Smyth, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department, United States 12.30 – 12.50 Some thoughts on school seismic safety programmes in developing countries Sudhir K. Jain, Professor of Civil Engineering Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology, India 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch 14.30 – 16.15 Working Groups to develop recommendations for basic principles, guidelines, and strategies for implementation programmes Working Group chairs: Thomas Tobin, Manager, Tobin and Associates, United States Carlos Ventura, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada Haresh Shah, Director, Risk Management Systems Inc., United States Room D Room 9 Room E 16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break Room D, OECD Château 16.45 – 18.30 Working Group Chair reports from break-out sessions and discussion led by Chair Earthquake Safety in Schools Tuesday 10 February 2004 An experts’ meeting organised by the OECD Programme on Educational Building (PEB) and GeoHazards International (GHI)