Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Clarks Flour Mill and Water Race Maheno, North Otago
- 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. 111-116
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0980960352
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.910258893053946
- Abstract
This paper describes the strengthening and upgrading carried out by David G. Cox for the Historic Places Trust on the Maheno Flour Mill. Flour Mills were an important part of the local economy and were common throughout the East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand in the 1800's. They represented the interface between industry and agriculture and required considerable venture capital to set up. Flour Mills were large buildings from 4 to 6 stories high with machinery generally driven by water power to grind the wheat for flour or the oats for oatmeal. The Historic Places Trust bought the Maheno Mill in 1977 as an example of the larger country waterpowered flour mills that were once so common. The mill is a 4 story structure with load bearing walls of local Oamaru limestone and timber floors. The mill race comes from the Kakanui River and originally drove an overshot water wheel. The building was in serious disrepair when bought by the Historic Places Trust and David G. Cox, a structural engineer experienced in providing structural strength to historic buildings, was commissioned to carry out the repairs. This involved strengthening the limestone walls by placing a reinforced concrete shear wall inside the limestone facing and providing floor bracing lo make the structure capable of resisting seismic loads. The paper describes the innovative means of providing structural strength without changing the appearance of the building.
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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