Part I: Helmut's Vision -- Challenges Towards Achieving Earthquake Resilience through Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering -- Part II: Global Vision -- Engineering Challenges on the Way to Resilient Structures and Communities -- Toward the Bled Workshop in Future -- Global Challenges and the Role of Civil Engineering -- Earthquake-Resistant Bridges of the Future with Advanced Materials -- Inelastic Shear Response and Strengthening of RC Bridge Hollow Box Piers -- Developments in Codifying Direct Displacement-Based Seismic Design -- Part III: New Vision after Recent Earthquakes -- A Lesson from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake - The necessity for collaboration and dialog among natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, government agencies and the general public.- Lessons Learned from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake for Performance-Based Design -- L'Aquila Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call For European Research and Codes -- Lessons from the 2010 Chile earthquake for performance based design and code development -- Performance-Based Issues from the 22 February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake -- Part IV: Vision in Japan and Asia (Coordinated and edited by Masayoshi Nakashima) -- Seismic Performance of a Bridge Column Based on E-Defense Shake-Table Excitations -- Development of Building Monitoring System to Verify the Capacity Spectrum Method -- Evaluation on ultimate flexural deformability of reinforced concrete columns with wing walls -- Seismic Performance and Reinforcement of Japanese High-Rise Buildings Facing Subduction Earthquakes: E-Defense Shake Table Tests -- Pseudo-dynamic Performance Evaluation of Full Scale Seismic Steel Braced Frames Using Buckling-Restrained and In-plane Buckling Braces -- Theory and Applications of the 3-DOF Modal System for PBSE of Asymmetrical Buildings -- Part V: Vision in Europe (Coordinated and edited by Peter Fajfar) -- Pushover-based analysis in performance-based seismic engineering - A view from Europe -- Challenges and problems in performance-based design of tall buildings -- Performance Based Earthquake-Resistant Design: Migrating Towards Nonlinear Models and Probabilistic Framework -- Seismic fragility of RC buildings designed to Eurocodes 2 and 8 -- Performance-Based Assessment of Existing Buildings in Europe: Problems and Perspectives -- Inelastic Shear Response of RC Walls - A Challenge in Performance Based Design and Assessment -- Masonry buildings, seismic performance and Eurocodes -- Part VI : Vision in Americas (Coordinated and edited by Jack Moehle and Andrei Reinhorn) -- Performance-based earthquake engineering in the U.S.A case study for tall buildings -- Consideration of Resilience of Communities in Structural Design -- Ground motion selection for performance-based engineering: Effect of target spectrum and conditioning period -- Reliability Considerations in the Seismic Capacity Design Requirements for Force-Controlled Components -- Reassessing ACI 318 Shear Wall Provisions Based on Recent Earthquake and Test Observations -- Collapse Probability of Existing Concrete Buildings: The Evolution of Seismic Rehabilitation in North America -- Earthquake-Resilient Communities: A Look from Mexico.