Press Clips Archive
Test results are in: TallWood building a resounding success
Temblor | February 14, 2024
After three months of testing and more than 100 simulated earthquakes, one 10-story building has demonstrated the impressive seismic resilience of mass timber buildings. As previously reported, the TallWood building was designed and constructed by a team led by Colorado School of Mines associate professor Shiling Pei and dubbed the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood Project. The National Science Foundation-funded project is managed by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where the tower was built. Full Story
Home Disasters: Earthquakes, Landslides, Sinkholes, and What To Do
Home Diagnosis | January 27, 2024
An exploration of the natural phenomena around our homes that are unexpectedly hard or soft- hail, landslides, liquefaction of the ground during earthquakes, and the research around all of these. Features the UC San Diego shake table. Full Story
Local middle schoolers shake things up at K'nex competition
10News | November 27, 2023
On Monday, 180 middle school students from Oceanside and National City showcased their engineering skills in UC San Diego's Seismic Outreach K'Nex Competition. Full Story
They were shook: Tweens compete at UC San Diego shake-table quake simulation
NBC San Diego | November 27, 2023
It?s a humbling sound: middle-schoolers hearing a structure crash into pieces after they spent the past five weeks building it. For Jefferson Middle School student Emma Davis, it?s also a familiar sound. Full Story
Five Things Construction Specialties Learned from Shaking a 10-Story Building
BCD Network | September 19, 2023
Construction Specialties (CS) is the only manufacturer in the market that can claim its modular stair system can withstand 100 earthquakes. Thanks to extensive practical testing conducted this spring at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) on the tallest building ever to be seismically tested, CS has identified five significant insights that will impact all future research and development in stair solutions. Full Story