Dive summary:

• Research engineers at U.S. and Canadian universities and members of the steel industry are working together on an initiative that is looking for ways to increase the safety during earthquakes of buildings who skeletons are made of lightweight, cold-formed steel.
• Ground zero for the work, which already has a mathematical model of what should go on, is a two-story test building on a shake table at the University of Buffalo in New York state.
• The work is under the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), and data from the tests is made available on NEEShub, which is housed at Purdue.

From the article:

The objective is to advance cold-formed steel light-frame design in buildings to the next level and equip engineers to implement these performance-based seismic designs in their projects. ...