RJC Engineers (RJC), a Canadian structural engineering firm, has announced its participation in the seismic testing of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood project, currently underway at the University of California, San Diego.
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Days after the devastating earthquake affecting Turkey and Syria, which led to 39,000 reported casualties, the Turkish government has detained or sent arrest warrants for more than 130 people, including nine contractors, accused of involvement in illegal or poor-quality construction.
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University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)’s civil engineering assistant professor, Dr. Ramla Qureshi, and her team will be given a grant of $132,000 over a period of five years from the Discovery Grants (DG) program by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to perform research on the resilience of wood-steel hybrid buildings.
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Over the past year, this author has witnessed an increase in the design community’s awareness of the seismic requirements set out for Canadian jurisdictions. However, for both new and existing construction, the destructive effects of earthquakes can be of significant concern.
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