Sunday, February 8, 2009

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The purpose of this blog is to research economically and environmentally sound methods of improving residential earthquake resistance in locations susceptible to earthquakes. Please feel free post any input on the subject. Any information will be greatly appritiated. I hope to respond to as many posts as possible.
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6 comments:

  1. Dale ParkesFebruary 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM

    There are numerous proposed changes to the National Building Code aimed at increasing the earthquake resistance of buildings. They can be reviewed here: http://www.nationalcodes.ca/publicreview/2008/indices/Subject_NBC_e.shtml . They even briefly discuss the cost implications. I suggest you look them over as a primer to your research. Perhaps you will be inspired.
    Also worth noting, the BCBC is changing to allow 6 storey wood frame construction. This will no doubt have seismic design implications. See: http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/building/wood_frame/ .
    Have a chat with Dennis to get his thoughts.

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  2. Patrick D'ArceyMarch 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM

    Hi Joey
    I was looking through earth quake prevention and found this book that you might find useful. The title of the book is Building safer cities [electronic resource] : the future of disaster risk. Also I found a movie that you might find interesting. It's called Total collapse [videorecording] : can buildings survive earthquakes?

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  3. Denton ElliotMarch 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Hey Joey,

    I found this thesis from Li, Yue. "Fragility Methodology for Performance-Based Engineering of Wood-Frame Residential Construction". I don't know if it will help you, but it deals with different methods of hurricane and earthquake construction.

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  4. Denton ElliotMarch 29, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    Joey, Thanks for the blog info.. I forgot to ask you about a topic that I have been interested in that relates to your topic. I like furniture design and always thought that eathquake furniture was a cool idea. (i.e. bed with solid canopy.) Could you let me know if you run across anything like.

    Thanks

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  5. Denton ElliotMarch 29, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    Joey,
    I went ot the site you gave me. It is biased towards Lennox products, but gives great examples of problems in schools, where "their" product helped out in their solution. Every little bit of knowledge helps me.

    Thanks

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  6. Joey CarlbergMarch 29, 2009 at 10:06 PM

    Hey Denton,
    I have currently not seen any information on earthquake furniture, but it does sound interesting. I will let you know if I come across
    any.

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