The description of Turkmenistan’s guidelines for analysis and design of bridges in earthquake-prone areas is given. The document is intended for design of bridges with earthquake protection elements, the bridges of higher importance, the bridges on sites with soft water-saturated  soils and other  projects, the  analysis of which is not envisaged by the current regulatory documents. The guidelines makes provision for the use of BBD-design with two levels of peak accelerations  for strength-level and maximum strength-level events.

Some information is presented about the international conference held in Turkmenistan (August 24-28, 2011)