News Release

Media resources for upcoming tests of a 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego earthquake simulator

Media day: June 23, 2025

B-roll, sound bites, drone footage will be available for download here

Media day hand out (information on earthquake motions, researchers ID)

Updated June 18, 2025

Photo and video gallery on Flickr

Video

YouTube

Building drone fly-over

Construction overview, floor by floor (drone shots) 

Timelapse: Lifting the last roof component in place

Timelapse: Lifting the last wall panel in place on the 10th floor

Timelapse: building construction 

Google Drive

Drone fly-over, last building component being lifted in place, control room b-roll, b-roll of the mechanism under the shake table 

Photography

Photo folder: Researchers installing sensors in the building, portrait of lead researcher Tara Hutchinson, with the building behind her, close-ups of the cold-formed steel-framed structure 

Interviews with the researchers

Video: UC San Diego Professor Tara Hutchinson explains why the CFS10 earthquake tests are important 

Video: Podcast interview with Johns Hopkins Professor Ben Schafer, who is the project’s co-lead

Press releases and feature stories

10-story steel-framed building to be put to the test on the UC San Diego earthquake simulator (UC San Diego press release) 

Earthquake simulator shakes up cold-formed steel design (Johns Hopkins feature story) 

Cold-formed steel for seismic resilience? It’s on the table (NHERI feature–more technical) 

Shake table 101

Impact of the UC San Diego shake table on building codes in the past two decades (UC San Diego story)

Useful websites

CFS10 project website 

UC San Diego shake table  (live camera views of the building)


 

Media Contacts

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