News Release

Tallwood tests UC San Diego Shake Table media day May 9 2023

 

MEDIA CONTACTS

May 9: Liezel Labios, UC San Diego: (909) 456-0482

May 5 to 8:

Ioana Patringenaru, UC San Diego (619) 253-4474

Emilie Rusch, Colorado School of Mines (720) 432-5203 

 

VIDEO AND PHOTO CREDITS FROM MATERIALS LINKED FROM THIS PAGE, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED:
University of California San Diego

 

MEDIA LINKS 

 

MAY 9 FOOTAGE 
(this footge will be uploaded asap on May 9)

Drone shots during May 9, 2023 tests at UC San Diego

Interior shots during May 9, 2023 tests at UC San Diego

Outside shots during May 9, 2023 tests at UC San Diego 

Footage from beneath the shake table during Northridge and Chi Chi earthquake simulations during May 9, 2023 tests at UC San Diego

Researchers soundbites recorded on May 9, 2023 (and on May 4, 2023)
 

LIVE STREAM LINKS

YouTube

Facebook 

LinkedIn


TALLWOOD VIDEO FOOTAGE AT UC SAN DIEGO PRIOR TO MAY 9

Footage from beneath the UC San Diego shaketable during a May 04, 2023 test that replicated the ground motions of Northridge earthquake

Drone video: sunset shots at UC San Diego

Social media teaser

Drone video: rocking walls installation  at UC  San Diego

Drone video: earlier tests at UC San Diego

Earlier tests b-roll at UC San Diego

Drone videos from building tuning, April 2023 (courtesy UC San Diego)

B-roll from inside the building at UC San Diego

Researcher soundbite: UC San Diego structural engineering professor Joel Conte 

Construction time lapse at UC San Diego

Shaketable tour and technical explainer video with site operations manager Koorosh Lotfizadeh at UC San Diego

 

TALLWOOD PHOTOS AT UC SAN DIEGO PRIOR TO MAY 9

Photos: Flickr album of highlights of the construction of the 10-story Tallwood structure on the UC San Diego shaketable

Photos: A second Flickr album with more photos of the construction of the 10-story Tallwood structure on the UC San Diego shaketable

Tallwood lead researcher Shiling Pei on site (photo credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego)

Site under construction, October 2022 (photo credit: Shiling Pei, Colorado School of Mines)

Site, January 2023 (Thomas Robinson, LEVER Architecture)

Portrait of shake table lead researcher and UC San Diego structural engineering professor Joel Conte

 

GENERAL LINK TO VIDEO RESOURCES FOR MEDIA

General link to Tallwood project video files for media 


PRESS RELEASES

UC San Diego Tallest full-scale bulding ever built one an earthquake simulator put to the test at UC San Diego

UC San Diego: A big machine for earthquake safety reopens at UC San Diego

UC San Diego: World's largest outdoor earthquake simulator undergoes major upgrade

Colorado School of Mines: How do tall timber builidings fare in earthquakes? Mines researcher is leading record-setting test to find out

Washington State University: Seismic testing of NHERI Tallwood Buidng to set a new record 

Media advisory for May 9, 2023 Tallwood tests at UC San Diego shaketable

 

RENDERINGS

Rendering (courtesy LEVER Architecture)

Floor plan (courtesy LEVER Architecture)

 

WEBSITES

UC San Diego shake table website

Tallwood project website

Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure

Media Contacts

Daniel Kane
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-534-3262
dbkane@ucsd.edu

Ioana Patringenaru
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-822-0899
ipatrin@ucsd.edu

Liezel Labios
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-246-1124
llabios@ucsd.edu