Press Clips Archive
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
Behind the scenes of the TallWood shake table test at UC San Diego
ASCE/Civil Engineering Source | August 28, 2023
It is often said: ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? But the largest full-scale building ever tested on the University of California San Diego?s newly upgraded outdoor shake table remained upright through dozens of earthquake simulations run over several weeks. Full Story
How a 10-Story Wood Building Survived More Than 100 Earthquakes
Bloomberg | June 5, 2023
The structure is the tallest ever subjected to simulated earthquakes on the world?s largest high-performance ?shake table,? which uses hydraulic actuators to thrust the steel platform through six degrees of motion to replicate seismic force. The shake-table trials at a University of California at San Diego facility are part of the TallWood Project, an initiative to test the seismic resiliency of high-rise buildings made of mass timber. Full Story