CONSTRUCTION FOR EARTHQUAKES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 14

CONSTRUCTION FOR EARTHQUAKES.

ADVTCEi TO GUILDERS. IiECbMMteNDEiD Tb viSW? - ttAWtefe»S fiAt. 11 ' The earthqudke irea s should visited by slli buliderbj architects, ahd fitrtictural etighieeffi #hd isi£ J>6Siib|y db so," said i<fofb&sbV i. Si. l. cttli, chairrrtail of the tiuildihgs Sefeulatiolis Coihmittce Set* lip by th» Pritee Miiiistbr, drift PrdfbSSbr bf tiivil ing at Canterbury to ft representative yeSCfetdayj "I told otie ot my young students to-day thftt ill tHb future then Whd had be<3ri to SdWlw's Bay; ahd had seen the ejects of the earthquake, would hate A great advantage ovef till dthbtfe; bbdatiflb of thfe practical knowledge th6y Volild ha.Ve feainedi and I hdvised him to go thbtb and db&brVb fdr MtbMi U hj« dOhld range it, bVen thdilgh it might liifettft some expense to inaX'e sueh a tour» "I & rid all wh# hfcVb bedtt to Naitibr, it as 6, ifiattbf 6f the importance that all whosb profbseions concern theitt With btfilding construi?txojtt should go there and leamj 4b that their knowledge may bb of vßltie m the t - tute in helping to gUatd against tW bffbets bf such inif pfatttiee Will Mfettlt fW«h M ch by th&Sb C«fatsbrnba> ahd thetS is fib region why buildings ih flttdctCd tb Sthild gainst Should ddst ttlote thttn % thb pft«t._ "At'the meeting of the Wtotiuttee held in Wellingtoh id thl? the past Webk, the 6 ? ifaibh. wg held that, taking an,. aVe^ a claSsesj of .blifldinfe Structidn in future can bS mueh improved Without increased, dost #> tw owher. In fact, Some or the experts, irtcludihg essentially practical men, are of. the opinibn that coSts ban bd redlieedi" Of cdurgfrj much of the present eßiifetrtietioii it Bound «wd fconomlealj atilsoMe «f it teqhitea very little modi' fifeatiori ttt bring it to the stftxldatd of eAfthqaMte-tMistlhg ftaitic®/ but itJfc de<irtffll§, At thb ihihe tlifiS, that of tilb fc&istih& ilrabtlfed shbhld bo discontinued. In particular, excessively cbmpbsitd structures, involving the use of (feveraJ materials m the main loadbeafing structure, have shdwil up badly in Hawke »h Bay. "The bominittbe feels that, While the art bf construction in countries ll&fclt! to ievbfe earthquakes can 9b BodtSbll«d by A by-lair, h blast iiiflhdhfce in fiitvifd piftbtice will bfe wifeidea by thbsb btnidert uid &*■ chiteas df the bbutltty who hhve "peisbhaliy fisitfed the dbVtt«t&ted «M»t Thetbis iib bttbdtioh whktayer that Wtge dilMtitiiß of iiiMteriiil hav& bbeii WltStb' fidy tisdd—irifebrtatatbd in 6dr StlrtltSi tdfeS ih aiifeh a W reasSMblf Well to lfritfifltdnd VArtlca] bids, ft lilis in rdih /h6n to the horizontaLl f dub tb All baftflabd builders shobld aiM, tb yb)U fiawitfi'i Bay and iehw Bte.hafi mt is-- there» in jtajntetAljable, language, for, all to read."