Keywords: Earthquakes, base isolation, FEMA P695, collapse studies ... forces generated during pounding can induce yielding in the superstructure and amplify the response acceleration at all stories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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amplification of accelerations in the upper floors of fixed base buildings strongly depends on the modal characteristics of the building and are independent of the type of ground motion; 2) on a base ...

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 ...

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 ...

The building only opened last year and was prized as Wellington’s first base-isolated apartment development. An apartment block in central Wellington was evacuated overnight after some residents ...