Day 1 – Tuesday June 14, 2011
I worked with Mark Sinclair and Elizabeth Hausler from Build Change during the months of March and April to help develop a retrofit procedure for Haitian buildings. The procedure is based on an ASCE-31 style checklist to identify major structural deficiencies. As one checklist item, field engineers calculate the wall area percentage in each primary direction (capacity), and compare that value to the required wall area percentage (demand). The required ...
Posted by Gordon Wray on June 21, 2011 6:04 PM
Degenkolb's New Technologies Group Principal Mark Sinclair has been traveling to Haiti a great deal lately. Mark and Degenkolb have teamed with the US-based non-profit group, Build Change .
Posted by Hanan Harb on June 15, 2011 9:28 PM
Kent Yu, Prinicpal, discussed the development of tsunami protection plans for Cannon Beach, Oregon in a recent issue of ENR.
http://enr.construction.com/infrastructure/environment/2011/0518-SearchingForCluesInQuakeMaddenedSeas-2.asp
Posted by Laurie on May 19, 2011 11:58 PM
Degenkolb Associate Principal, Robert Pekelnicky, led an earthquake reconnaissance team....
Posted by Hanan Harb on April 13, 2011 9:53 PM
Degenkolb New Zealand EQ Recon Team Monday 3/14/2011
Today was our last full day in Christchurch and we decided to split up to be able to cover more ground. While Loring and Laurie met with a local engineer about some critical buildings in the Central Business District, the rest of the team explored various locations in and around the perimeter of the CBD. One of the first buildings we encountered was at the corner of Victoria and Peterborough Streets. This building ...
Posted by Degenkolb New Zealand EQ Recon Team on March 14, 2011 9:02 PM
New Zealand Earthquake Day 5: Sunday Blog- Hospitals and Wineries
By the Degenkolb Reconnaissance Team
This morning we visited some of the areas outside of downtown Christchurch where we hadn’t yet had time to explore. We continued to come upon stone churches and the typical URM two story shops that we have seen in several places, building types which have suffered major damage while adjacent buildings fared well. At one of the churches the spire was standing up ...
Posted by Degenkolb New Zealand EQ Recon Team on March 13, 2011 7:31 PM
