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David Bonowitz: Basic earthquake design

 


Epidemics and wildfires have left earthquakes in the threat matrix, but they still loom large. Engineer David Bonowitz has this view of what is essential in earthquake design.

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the San Fernando earthquake. Engineers learned a lot from San Fernando, especially from the horrific damage at Olive View Hospital. On February 9, 1971, Olive View was a month old, and was just destroyed by an earthquake. The stairwells collapsed, ambulances shattered, and the five-story concrete structure, which had more than 500 patients inside, tilted so badly that it had to be demolished.

Fifty years ago, all buildings, including hospitals, were designed with the same building code. San Fernando and Olive View have changed that. By 1976, the new law classified hospitals, police, fire stations, and emergency operations centers as “essential facilities.” Does this phrase ring the bell these days?

The aim of designing these “core” buildings was to keep them not only safe, but functional after an earthquake. But what about other buildings? Housing, offices, radio stations, even some schools – none of them qualify as “essential”. Even today, the vast majority of “normal” buildings have been designed to be safe, but not to reopen according to any set schedule.

Over the past decade, we’ve come to the conclusion that the true goal of earthquake design goes beyond safety, it has to be community resilience, which we can measure in the time it takes to restore services that define our community. And everyone who has suffered from the epidemic sees this as well – that housing is essential, that the entire food supply chain is necessary, that going to work and having children at school is necessary, if not on the first day, then it is likely on day 30, and certainly on day 300.

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