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There are some brick buildings in the Mediterranean which are seismically resistant. Italy, the birthplace of concrete, is seismically active after all: https:
by scythe 9y ago
There are some brick buildings in the Mediterranean which are seismically resistant. Italy, the birthplace of concrete, is seismically active after all:
https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-seismic-prone-areas https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-...
I'm curious as to whether wood-over-brick could allow taller structures than wood or brick alone. Building cheaply in the 50-85 foot range (high-rise regulations kick in above a floor height of 75 feet) is an important challenge going forward and hard to do with wood alone.
- jaggederest 9y agoThe latest changes to the international building code include some rules allowing masonry under wood, which is why there's an explosion of midrise apartment buildings in my area at least.
- seandougall 9y agoIt turns out concrete and brick have completely different, almost polar opposite, seismic properties. Here in CA, concrete is what you want a foundation to be made from. We learned the hard way that brick foundations are prone to crumbling. Brick is certainly strong up to a point, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.