Browsing by Subject "Society, policy, and culture in understanding impacts and improving resilience"
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Re-emerging from the rubble: What is delaying regeneration of Christchurch CBD?
(2021-04-14)Ten years since the February 2011 earthquakes devastated Christchurch CBD, partially demolished, derelict buildings and poorly maintained vacant sites remain in the post-earthquake landscape. While Christchurch City Council ... -
Reimagining Community Resilience through a Te Ao Maori Worldview
(2023-04-19)Efforts to improve community resilience have seen universal efforts to grow capabilities in disaster management for the built environment. Although comprehensive frameworks exist, the perspective used to derive these ... -
Risk-Targeted Hazard Spectra for Seismic Design in New Zealand
(2021-04-14)The promotion of risk-targeted hazard spectra as the basis of seismic design internationally has increased over the past decade. Risk-targeted hazard spectra are derived through convolution of hazard curves with representative ... -
Seismic risk and the Building Code: A regulatory perspective
(2021-04-14)NZ is at the forefront of earthquake engineering and innovative solutions and strategies for dealing with seismic risk. Recent earthquakes have presented both opportunities and challenges for improving how the regulatory ... -
Societal Expectations for Functional Recovery of Primary and Secondary School Buildings
(2023-04-19)In the ongoing investigation of functional recovery requirements, the spectrum of functional requirements for different facility types is necessary to ensure buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained to meet ... -
The role of in-plane strengthening within a proposed non-specific design approach to seismic improvement for URM buildings
(2022-04-27)Recent research shows that a significant number of earthquake-prone unreinforced brick masonry buildings may not receive seismic strengthening within the deadlines mandated by the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) ... -
The shaky south (or not): towards improving communities understanding of earthquake risk in Otago and Southland
(2022-04-27)Understanding how people interpret and respond to earthquake risks is vital to any strategy for earthquake risk reduction. Acknowledging that there is a wide range of interpretations of risk is important in determining how ... -
The State of Practice in SSI Modelling in New Zealand: Insights from an Engineering Profession Survey
(2021-04-14)There is a relatively brief consideration for soil-structure interaction (SSI) effect in the New Zealand guidelines for the seismic assessment of structures. Recent earthquake events including the Kaikōura earthquake of ...