A must for structural engineers working with heritage buildings.
An eye-opening and revealing expose into why and how Heritage buildings, as dotted throughout Victoria, are damaged in earthquakes.
Written by an internationally acclaimed award-winning structural engineering expert, these learnings have huge implications for heritage structures in Australia.
“An amazing effort; expertly researched! This book will be of value to engineers in many countries and hopefully lead to better strengthening techniques for heritage buildings.”
David Biggs - Forensic Engineer. Author of “Masonry Aspects of the World Trade Center Disaster”, Principal - Biggs Consulting Engineering, New York
About the author
Dr. Dmytro Dizhur
Dr. Dmytro Dizhur is an award-winning chartered structural engineer who has dedicated his career to the mitigation of earthquake risks for large-scale national and global heritage buildings.
Having advised on over 1000 projects for assessing and strengthening masonry buildings, Dr. Dizhur is a leader in devising creative and innovative testing methods for optimising strengthening solutions.
He has assisted in redefining national and international guidelines for the structural assessment and earthquake retrofit design of masonry buildings.
Learn from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which transformed this New Zealand city.
It provides first-hand insights into the types of damage that occurred to numerous heritage masonry buildings during the 2010-2011 earthquake sequence, illustrates the historical significance of various buildings and showcases earthquake-strengthening techniques that worked and others that didn’t.
The observations in this book are an essential guide to help preserve much-loved historic buildings in the future, ultimately saving lives globally.
Hear from Dmytro.
“It has given us a window into understanding how certain [earthquake strengthening] methodologies have performed better than others, and why.
That has really put the learnings from these earthquakes on a global map.”
Dr Dmytro Dizhur - Internationally acclaimed, award-winning and published seismic and structural engineering expert
View selected pages from the book. The full book contains over 50 building case studies on over 166 pages.
“Ensuring that the future is not a repeatable past“
Over 50 buildings vividly depicted.
Historical Background
A brief history of iconic buildings
Earthquake Strengthening
Insight into employed techniques
Structural Performance
An overview of damage to buildings
Where do sales proceeds go?
100% of profits from this book will go towards funding engineering student scholarships and further research on earthquake-strengthening of masonry buildings.
The more we raise, the more scholarships and research we can fund that will lead to more effective earthquake solutions.
Purchasing this book will help us save lives.
”An amazing effort; expertly researched! Readers will gain a wealth of information.”
David Biggs - Forensic Engineer. Author of “Masonry Aspects of the World Trade Center Disaster”, Principal - Biggs Consulting Engineering, New York, USA
“An excellent book with an abundance of valuable knowledge on the mitigation of earthquake risk to masonry buildings - which can be applied globally. Very well researched and delivered.”
Professor Michael Griffith - School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia
