Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2013 1 Comment »
Now that all work for VCHT is done, and all of the project deliverables have been completed, it’s time to sum up what we’ve done over the past three months. The main objective of this project was to gather data regarding the seismic safety of unreinforced masonry buildings in downtown Victoria, particularly around Market Square. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2013 No Comments »
As our CBEL project comes to a conclusion with the poster project next week, we have been working hard to finish our deliverables. Through communication with the geography students and our mentor and contact at RJC, Brandon, we finalized what information was needed and created an excel sheet which contained data that could be used […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2013 1 Comment »
Although all team travel has been completed and all the data has been gathered, there is still much work to be done. This post will summarize the activities of the trip, outline what work remains to be done, and provide the safety plan which was made in case of emergency. The team met with two […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2013 1 Comment »
We are currently in the process of organizing our final, three day trip to Victoria’s downtown core. After meeting with Brandon Paxton last week, we received the final draft of the screening review forms, as well as a list of the heritage buildings that we will be screening. Our preparations for the trip have included: […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2013 3 Comments »
We arrived back in Vancouver Friday night, after a day trip to Victoria where we received a full project overview from VCHT. Our team will be assisting in conducting a pilot project, screening and assessing the seismic risk of heritage buildings located within a target area of the downtown core of Victoria, BC. The target […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2013 2 Comments »
The Project Victoria B.C. is located in one of the world’s most seismically active regions, and it also has a large concentration of historical, unreinforced masonry buildings in its downtown core. These types of buildings generally perform very poorly during earthquakes and therefore they are prone to damage and pose a significant risk to life. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2013 1 Comment »
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