News tagged with masonry buildings
Engineers Try to Bring Down the House During Simulated Earthquake Tests
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California at San Diego put a single-story house to the test on January 26 via a series of strong simulated earthquake shakes. The first jolt to the wood-stud ...
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One-story masonry building survives strong jolts during seismic tests (w/Video)
Apr 14, 2009 |
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A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake jolts after engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego put it to the test. The series of tests, performed at UC ...
If you can't measure the heat...
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Accurate measurement of thermal performance is crucial if new government legislation aimed at producing dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions is to be successful. The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is offering constructi ...
Retrofitted Historic Building Survives Strong Simulated Jolts During UCSD Test (w/ Video)
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a series of rigorous simulated earthquakes - measuring up to a 7.5 magnitude - jolted the three-story, 1920s era reinforced concrete structure, UC San Diego engineers were not quite sure ...
Engineers work to make historic buildings safer during strong earthquakes
Dec 04, 2008 |
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Recent simulated earthquake tests conducted by UC San Diego engineers are expected to lead to retrofit schemes that make historic buildings safer. The structural engineers tested a structure similar to those ...
Energy savings from airtight buildings
Oct 07, 2005 |
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U.S. commercial building owners could save substantially on annual heating and cooling energy costs by making buildings more airtight.
Underground lines that bypass monuments
Nov 11, 2009 |
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A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...
Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
A full-sized California-style home made of bamboo
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new type of eco-friendly residential house made of bamboo now stands in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
EPA tells schools to test aging caulk for PCBs
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says.
Nearly half of Venice underwater
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Much of the historic Italian city of Venice, including St. Mark's Square, was underwater Monday following a meteorological depression combined with natural tide waters, officials said.
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