03 October 2023
InTech: Building resilience to natural hazards in heritage and other URM structures
Four industry documents, discussing retrofit needs for heritage buildings, were recently published by Geoscience Australia. Duratec’s Principal Structural Engineer, Peter Baxendale, was one of the main consultants. Australia has a large inventory of legacy unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings that pre-date earthquake-resistant structural design practices. They date from the early 1800s and early-to-mid 1900s, long before […]
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