Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- C.R. Ford's Contribution to Seismic Engineering in New Zealand
- In
- Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings
- Imprint
- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 151-156
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0980960352
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.910538387622819
- Abstract
New Zealand's first national recommendations for seismic engineering practice were prepared by the Building Regulations Committee of 1931 immediately following the February 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake. Some of the recommendations reflected technical discussion in the 1926 book by C.R. Ford published in New Zealand on the basis of a lecture to the Engineering and Architectural Society of the University College of Auckland. This appears to have been more comprehensive than previous publications in English on structural engineering design for seismic load. In it Ford advocated the establishment of a seismic code of building practice for New Zealand; a plea which was not to be realised until the earthquake of 1931 provided the political will for such. Having published his book and stimulated pressure on the Government to take action on this matter it is somewhat surprising that Ford was not invited to be part of the Committee. However, he did inspect the earthquake damage and make a submission to the Committee, and later served on the Model Building Code Committee of 1934. Aspects of Ford's book Building and Earthquake Construction, and his life and personality make an interesting backdrop to early building code developments in New Zealand.
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- Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings edited by Lowe, P. G.; Hill, R .F. (Auckland, New Zealand: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2000), 248 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0980960352. Details