News Archive

Chapel damage

Christchurch-Darfield earthquake – 4th September 2010

At 4.35am, Saturday 4th of September 2010, a M7.1 earthquake struck the east of the South Island in New Zealand.

shake table

Shaking table test on 3-storey pre-1970′s RC frame

As part of the final phase of the FRST retrofit project, a series of large-scale as-built and retrofitted reinforced concrete

Reconnaisance mission

Project members being part of reconnaissance missions

On Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:34 NZT (03:34 Local Time) a M8.8 earthquake struck central Chile, with the epicenter

Conference

Project updates, survey, research and conferences

As part of a research on understanding the motivations in driving seismic retrofit implementation, University of Auckland PhD student Temitope

beam-column test

Updates: Beam-column joint tests and L’Aquila reconstruction

Recently, a series of pre-1970s non ductile reinforced concrete beam-column joints with cast-in-situ slab has been successfully tested. The testing