Five non-traditional construction systems and their performance under lateral seismic forces are presented. Maximum seismic forces for each system using the NT-E030 RNC Peruvian standards are presented as threshold values of comparison of the performance of each system to recommend the proper reduction factor for each of these systems, the one could be used in the future as a complement of NT-E030 RNC standards. Inter story drifts are recommended from the experimental results for two groups of systems: for systems with displacements among their components a value of9/1000 is recommended, and for systems based their behavior on shear distortions a drift of 4/1000 is recommended.

In recent times, different construction systems orientated to e been imported from first-world countries and many have not been adapted to the Peruvian earthquake standards. This invasion of technology originated after the announcement of the reconstruction plan for affected areas due to the El Niño phenomena and the Nazca earthquake. On the other hand, many of these systems were applied in countries without earthquake problems and most of them use foreign supplies. In the case of Peru, structural systems should be designed according to earthquake standard E-030 of the National Construction Code. On the other hand, Peruvian researchers in the last 15 years developed different solutions for construction systems using national supplies and most of them had been tested and have the approval and registration of the state office of normalization, SENCO. The present report introduces five construction systems that have been tested in the structural laboratory of CISMID -Faculty of Civil Engineering of the National University of Engineering Lima, Peru.