Browsing Proceedings of the 2021 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Annual Technical Conference by Subject "Understanding social impacts and improving social resilience"
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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 ... -
Evaluation of the ShakeOut earthquake drill and use of protective actions in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2021-04-14)Many earthquake injuries in Aotearoa New Zealand result from people falling or being struck by flying objects during shaking. Since 2012, the ShakeOut earthquake (and now tsunami) drill has aimed to teach the protective ... -
Improvements to state school building design including the implementation of low-damage design criteria
(2021-04-14)The Ministry of Education (the Ministry) owns one of the largest property portfolios in New Zealand, with more than 15,000 buildings spread across nearly 2,100 state schools. Following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake sequence, ... -
Seismic performance expectations of homeowners using strengthening techniques to structurally prepare houses for earthquakes
(2021-04-14)Due to the widespread damage and large economic losses caused to residential houses by major earthquakes all around the world, government authorities and nongovernmental organizations have made significant investments to ...