Plyscrapers - high-rise wooden office towers - could become more popular after the Christchurch earthquake. Connal Townsend, Property Council chief executive, has returned from the Green Cities conference in Melbourne where he said an address was given on the prospect of [ More ] [ Read More ]
NZ Wood is scouring the web for examples of timber design. In the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake, this article echoes some of NZ’s thoughts and concerns. Also read International Experience Provides Pointers for Rebuilding Christchurch
Published: 23 March, 2010, [ More ] [ Read More ]
Brian Langham from NZ Wood visited the Japanese city of Kobe six months after its devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake in 1995. His report on the lessons learned from the earthquake and its implications for New Zealand (a version of which was [ More ] [ Read More ]
Report – NZWood
9 February 2010
New engineering techniques allowing multi-storey buildings to be constructed of wood can mean buildings surviving major earthquakes with very little damage, according to a New Zealand engineering professor.
Andy Buchanan of Canterbury University says that if the [ More ] [ Read More ]
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