New Zealand's unreinforced masonry buildings : facing up to the earthquake.

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New Zealand's unreinforced masonry buildings : facing up to the earthquake.

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The damage caused by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake has led to the introduction of compulsory seismic strengthening legislation for all unreinforced earthquake-prone masonry buildings (URM) within New Zealand. The legislation, passed in 2013, requires all such URM commercial, multi-unit and multi-storey residential buildings to be upgraded and strengthened to a minimum of 34% or more of the New Building Standard, irrespective of the earthquake zone within which they are located. Buildings s...

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Date created

2020-01-01

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Murphy, Chris

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/4925

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New Zealand / earthquake prone buildings / unreinforced brick masonry retail buildings (URM) / Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill 2013 / construction technology / Architectural Heritage and Conservation

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