Often the masonry is covered with a smooth layer of plaster, which provides a nice finished surface and hides potential poor quality blocks and bad construction details. The engineers are encouraged to be building detectives, looking for clues that provide information on what lies beneath the plaster. For example, this picture shows a house where the interior wall was removed. The underside of the slab shows the lack of positive connection when the wall was in place, which is ...
Posted by Gordon Wray on January 30, 2012 5:38 PM
Today wraps up a week of training the newly hired engineers of Build Change, Haiti in earthquake engineering, and building evaluation and retrofit procedures. The week started off with nine new engineers in my class and on Wednesday I got six more. The first nine engineers split into sub-groups on Wednesday and today they will complete their training with presentations on the example buildings for which they had to evaluate and design retrofits. The example buildings were ...
Posted by Lizzie Blaisdell on January 27, 2012 6:40 PM
Cale Ash has been chosen as one of EERI's Housner Fellows in the 2012 inaugural class. The leadership program targets young to mid-career professionals and academics from around the world and equips them with the training and skills required to become effective advocates for earthquake safety.
Please join me in congratulating Cale on this achievement.
Posted by Alethea Odell on December 16, 2011 6:56 PM
Last week, Las Vegas was abuzz with the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) conference.
Posted by Hanan Harb on October 28, 2011 8:00 PM
Partnership Resulted in 58 Government Engineers Trained and Various Structural Engineering Design Resources Developed
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.--(10/12/2011) -- Build Change, the international non-profit social enterprise that designs earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries, has partnered with Degenkolb Engineers, a leading structural design engineering firm, to provide technical assistance and training services to the Government of Haiti (GoH) following the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake.
Build Change and Degenkolb have been working with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Communications (MTPTC) to ...
Posted by Alethea Odell on October 17, 2011 5:24 PM
The past two days have been focused on pushing the design for the retreat facility into a position to present to the church tonight. The entire project does not have to be completed by tonight. However, all of the major design and church feedback must be completed prior to leaving. In ...
Posted by Aaron Quaresma on September 30, 2011 8:11 PM
