Base isolation is a method for moderating the effects of earthquakes on buildings. Isolator devices (either elastic or sliding) are installed between the foundation and the building superstructure.

The building is one of a relatively small number in the United States that use so-called base-isolation technology. We explore the system in an article here. Jim Wilson, the San Francisco bureau ...

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Construction is nearing completion on Willis Bond’s $140 million Victoria Lane Apartments, the first base-isolated apartment building to be constructed in Wellington, with residents expecting to ...

Structural base isolation—effectively “floating” a building on rubber pads to safely ride out an earthquake—is nothing new in California. But the isolators installed for the structural and ...

The largest base-isolated building in the world officially opened in earthquake-prone Istanbul, Turkey, on May 21. The 1-million-sm, $1.5 billion Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital, located near ...

Lead Rubber Bearings Lead rubber bearings, a base isolation system, are installed on a building’s foundation to essentially decouple the structure from the ground itself. They’re constructed ...

The first spade is in the ground at the site of what will be Wellington's first ever base-isolated apartment building. Victoria Lane Apartments is a $140 million mixed-use development and one of ...