Details
QuakeCore's 'System Interactions and Detailing of Low-Damage Buildings' workshop was held in Wellington on 26th of April 2017. The workshop's objectives were to:
- Summarise state-of-art research related to low-damage buildings and dissipation devices.
- Catalogue and report on different types of constructed low-damage buildings.
- Identify key design and detailing approaches for constructed low-damage buildings.
- Identify design challenges and gaps in standards and guidelines for low-damage buildings.
- Develop research priorities for system interaction effects and detailing of low-damage buildings.
More details can be found on the workshop flyer (LINK).
Workshop Report
More details about the workshop can be found in the workshop report (LINK)
Agenda and presentations
The agenda and presentations (click speaker's name for link) are shown below. Note that some presentations span across several sessions.
Time | Topic | Speakers | ||
1.00 – 1.15 | Introduction | Rick Henry | ||
1.15 – 1.25 | MBIE low-damage guidelines | Dave McGuigan | ||
1.25 – 1.40 | Session 1: Rocking wall systems (concrete, timber walls, and steel frames) | State-of-art research, guidelines, and standards
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1.40 – 2.20
| Examples of implemented systems and detailing | |||
| 20 min | Alistair Cattanach (Dunning Thornton) | ||
| 5 min | |||
| 5 min | Didier Pettinga (Holmes) | ||
| 5 min | Tony Holden (Aurecon) | ||
2.20 – 2.50 | Panel Discussion | All speakers | ||
2.50 – 3.10 | Break | |||
3.10 – 3.25 | Session 2: Frame systems (sliding hinge joint, slotted concrete beams) | State-of-art research, guidelines, and standards
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3.25 – 3.55
| Examples of implemented systems and detailing | |||
| 5 min | Alistair Cattanach (Dunning Thornton) | ||
| 5 min | Didier Pettinga (Holmes) | ||
| 10 min | Geoff Sidwell (Aurecon) | ||
| 10 min | Jared Keen (Beca) | ||
3.55 – 4.25 | Panel Discussion | All speakers | ||
4.25 – 4.35 | Session 3: Dissipative and/or braced systems (components and devices) | State-of-art research, guidelines, and standards | ||
4.35 – 4.55 | Examples of implemented systems and detailing | |||
| 5 min | Alistair Cattanach (Dunning Thornton) | ||
| 5 min | Didier Pettinga (Holmes) | ||
| 5 min | Will Parker (Opus) | ||
| 5 min | |||
4.55 – 5.15 | Panel discussion | All speakers | ||
5.15 – 5.30 | Wrap up and next steps Three papers:
| Ken Elwood | ||
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