In North America and Europe, safety concerns have been growing around severe seismic activity, especially after 3 major earthquakes in 2020 across Croatia, Turkey and Greece caused more than 1 billion Euros in damage. So how can we design buildings to be safer during earthquakes?
Tremco Construction Products Group and their Nudura® Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) and framing brand have partnered with the Eucentre Foundation, a global leader in earthquake research and engineering located in Italy, to explore the building design options for earthquake-resistant construction. Starting with cyclic testing of Nudura ICF walls, this data will serve as a prototype for developing a Seismic Cyclical Shear Test Standard for reinforced concrete structures that will eventually be included in European design standards, Eurocode 8: Design of structures for earthquake resistance. The goal is to standardize building material performance testing to reduce the potential of infrastructure damage and loss of lives associated with seismic activity.
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