Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Engineering the Old
- 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. 205-207
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0980960352
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.910817882191692
- Abstract
Old buildings, our architectural and engineering heritage, are subject to many risks. These buildings have value, and the need to upgrade them without diminishing their intrinsic value requires a co-ordinated effort by architects and engineers. Structural upgrading which ensures a building is safe in a seismic event but which destroys much of its heritage fabric is not a satisfactory solution. It is proposed that it is possible to seismically upgrade and at the same time minimise the deleterious effects such strengthening can have on a building. This paper submits that this is achievable without destroying the architectural or heritage value and without generating a number of other building performance-related problems. Two recent strengthening projects are examined to show how inappropriate decisions have lead to serious degradation of interiors as a result of seismic strengthening. This experience has shown that while the engineering solution may have addressed the structural problem the solutions chosen generated serious water penetration problems. In any building, very few engineering problems can be regarded as just engineering problems - there is invariably an architectural consideration.
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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