Browsing by Subject "Society, policy, and culture in understanding impacts and improving resilience"
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A holisic methodology for assessing post-earthquake hospital functionality
(2021-04-14)Hospitals play a critical role in ensuring community safety. Hospitals must remain operational during and after an earthquake. However, physical damage, utility outages, or supply shortages can cause closures and/or ... -
Achieving earthquake-safe buildings – an educational initiative for developing nations
(2023-04-19)Building departments in developing nations have a poor track record of achieving earthquake-safe new buildings. Many buildings, within their jurisdictions are not expected to perform well in medium- to high-intensity ... -
CentrePort Wellington: Resilient regeneration activity
(2021-04-14)Wellington’s Pipitea port precinct - a critical lifeline and economic contributor to Wellington and surrounding regions – suffered significant damage and associated operational disruption as a result of the 2016 Kaikoura ... -
Design of RSFJ Self-centring Brace for Ultimate Limit State
(2021-04-14)In previous studies, it was shown that the RSFJ brace assembly is prone to elastic buckling for which a new mechanism composed of two telescopic sections was introduced as a remedy to increase the elastic buckling load, ... -
Earthquake prone public buildings: balancing life safety risks and community costs
(2021-04-14)The focus on seismic risk following the 2011 Christchurch and 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes has seen the closure of several public buildings across the country. The introduction of the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) ... -
Earthquake Stories: Experiences of Building Performance in Earthquakes to enhance future building performance
(2021-04-14)The performance of the built environment during earthquakes plays an important role in reducing risk and enhancing the resilience of New Zealand’s urban centres. Although engineering codes and building standards regulate ... -
Enhancing earthquake and tsunami preparedness and response in Kura Kaupapa Māori/Schools Aotearoa New Zealand: learnings from the 5 March 2021 East Cape earthquake sequence
(2022-04-27)Aotearoa New Zealand is exposed to numerous potentially damaging impacts from various hazard events. The east coast of the North Island, one of the most active seismic regions in New Zealand, faces significant earthquake ... -
Enhancing earthquake and tsunami preparedness and response in Kura Kaupapa Māori/Schools in Tairāwhiti and Waiāriki, Aotearoa New Zealand
(2023-04-19)Aotearoa New Zealand is exposed to numerous potentially damaging impacts from various hazard events. The east coast of the North Island, one of the most active seismic regions in New Zealand, faces significant earthquake ... -
Factors affecting the balancing of Gender Representation in the Engineering Industry
(2021-04-14)Gender disparity in the engineering industry is a well-recognised problem. Engineering is a growing industry, and the lack of gender balance affects the diversity of thought available to it, as well as the potential ... -
Improving earthquake resilience in the Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ) using school-based seismometers and connected education programmes
(2021-04-14)Over the past decade several “seismometers in schools” programmes have been developed in Aotearoa New Zealand by a range of organisations, for a variety of reasons and aiming to achieve a range of educational outcomes. ... -
Integrating Maori Perspectives into Community Resilience Frameworks for the Built Environment
(2022-04-27)Many governments and organisations have attempted to construct frameworks for improving community resilience, particularly as related to the built environment. Many frameworks take a large overview of society and miss the ... -
International alignment and update of the New Zealand earthquake intensity scale
(2023-04-19)The New Zealand Modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) scale was last revised in 2008. Even so, the scale's lack of specificity on New Zealand's structures for MMI>8 intensity levels has made it difficult to assign values for ... -
Low damage solution for a biomass boiler structure by a new three-dimensional seismic isolation
(2021-04-14)The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake caused significant property damage within Christchurch city. Since this devastating event, there has been a shift in engineering practice to Performance Based Design (PBD), to limit ... -
Meet EDDIE – QuakeCoRE’s new earthquake test dummy
(2023-04-19)Until recently there has been limited understanding of the relationship between behaviour during earthquake shaking and risk of injury. Studying human behaviour during shaking is important, however, because with a better ... -
Outlook for earthquake early warning for Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights from initiating a community-of-practice
(2021-04-14)A community-of-practice (CoP) is a community that comprises of members that build relationships with each other to create technical advancements motivated by shared goals. Establishing communities-of-practice has been ... -
Philosophical reflexions following the Lyttleton 2011 New Zealand Earthquake: Ten years after
(2021-04-14)At 12:51 p. m. on 22 February 2011, the Mw 6.3 Lyttelton earthquake struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The seismic event was reported as the result of the rupture of a previously unknown geological fault, 5.9 km ... -
Post-disaster building functionality: preliminary findings of a systematic review
(2023-04-19)During a natural hazard event, buildings are likely to experience some sort of damage, thus limiting their ability to function as intended. The severity of the ensuing consequences for various stakeholders and the community ... -
Post-earthquake Building Safety Evaluation Training, Palu, Indonesia
(2021-04-14)Palu City and other parts of Central Sulawesi were severely impacted by a MW 7.5 earthquake and tsunamis on 28 September 2018 as a result of a rupture of the Palu–Koro Fault. The earthquake resulted in 4,400 deaths and ... -
Post-earthquake functional recovery: A critical review
(2022-04-27)Functional recovery not only transforms the retrofit of damaged buildings from an earthquake event but also contributes to community resilience. This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art literature review of functional ... -
Public expectations of damage and disruption to existing multi-storey buildings in earthquakes
(2023-04-19)The seismic performance of both structural and non-structural building components have the potential to affect the lives of building occupants, with poor performance likely to cause undue disruptions to the lives of building ...