The Ministry of Building, Innovation and Employment is developing advice on how to deliver Low Damage Seismic Design (LDSD) protection for buildings through their Tū Kahika: Building Resilience platform. draft LDSD considering a design drift limit multi-storey 0.5% as part new damage control state checks. potential impact this criterion the expected annual loss due repair costs investigated gen...

Abstract Deflection of buildings from vertical is a common damage caused by underground mining. Its removal consists in tearing the building apart at level one storeys, most often basement, and then unevenly lifting part above plane with use piston hydraulic jacks. One conditions for properly carried out rectification correct computing height individual corners building. The subject article def...

Abstract It is expected that Cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other engineered wood products will experience rapid growth in the coming years. Global population requiring more housing units, at same time negative impact of construction industry cannot stay level as today. Alternatives for concrete steel reinforced structures are being explored. CLT has proven to be an excellent substitution reg...

Three dimensional (3D) geometric models of buildings are foundational for urban building energy modeling. A complete 3D model contains building-relevant information like footprint, height and Window-to-Wall Ratio (WWR). Existing methods creating these have certain limitations, such as unavailability Geographic Information System (GIS) databases Light Detection Ranging (LiDAR) data many cities, ...

The study purpose is to assess the degree of influence new large residential complexes commissioning on main parameter spatial vulnerability Moscow population natural and man-made hazards – its density. For this purpose, key indicators housing in for 2011-2021 were analyzed. use Big Data (data from mobile operators) made it possible determine actual change density 2018-2019 largest scale cells ...

Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and intense, causing damage to infrastructure loss of life. One way reduce disaster risk is evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite amount literature that exists on evacuation behavior, there still a lack agreement which variables can be used as predictors for individuals (or households) actually evacuate. This related ma...

in a completely randomized design, the effect of the extract from trifolium alexandrium (0, 0.2 and 0.4%) on the germination, some morphological characteristics, photosynthetic pigments, and nutrients uptake of prosopis cineraria was evaluated. the highest germination rate and percentage (9.16 and 21%, respectively) were recorded in the 0.2% treatment. the maximum and minimum lengths of radicle...

this study is a survey type of work on the plant tumors and their characteristics in genera1; special attention is given to those tumors which are caused by grobacterium tumefactions and also by plant hormones. the type of work and the methods are very much similar to the work of other investigators, but attempt was made to compare the results which are obtained upon the local varieties of a la...

dynamic behavior of the wind-excited-benchmark-building using semi-active electromagnetic friction dampers (saemfds), with modulated homogeneous friction algorithm is presented. the performance of the benchmark building is studied under across wind loads by installing the saemfds with smooth boundary layer semi-active friction (sblsaf) algorithm. the governing equations of motion are solved by ...

Around New Zealand there has been an increasing trend of ‘hybrid’ multi-storey buildings that combine reinforced concrete walls with structural steel framing systems. This study aims to characterise and understand this type building, focusing on constructed in Auckland Christchurch from 2014 onwards. Drawings a total 50 were reviewed, their features documented, including building use, height, l...