The book that needed to be written.
An eye-opening and revealing expose into why the Christchurch earthquakes were so damaging to the city’s buildings. Written by an internationally acclaimed, award-winning structural engineering expert.
100% of profits will fund engineering student scholarships and further research on the earthquake-strengthening of masonry buildings.
This book marks the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which transformed this New Zealand city.
It provides first-hand insights into the types of damage that occurred to numerous masonry buildings during the 2010-2011 earthquake sequence, illustrates the historical significance of various buildings and showcases earthquake-strengthening techniques that worked and others that didn’t.
The observations in this book are an essential guide to help preserve much-loved historic buildings in the future, ultimately saving lives in New Zealand and globally.
About the author
Dr. Dmytro Dizhur
Dr. Dmytro Dizhur is an award-winning chartered structural engineer who has dedicated his career to the mitigation of earthquake risks for large-scale national and global heritage buildings.
Having advised on over 1000 projects for assessing and strengthening masonry buildings, Dr. Dizhur is a leader in devising creative and innovative testing methods for optimising strengthening solutions.
He has assisted in redefining national and international guidelines for the structural assessment and earthquake retrofit design of masonry buildings.
Hear from Dmytro.
“It has given us a window into understanding how certain [earthquake strengthening] methodologies have performed better than others, and why.
That has really put the learnings from these earthquakes on a global map.”
Dr Dmytro Dizhur - Internationally acclaimed, award-winning and published seismic and structural engineering expert
View selected pages from the book. The full book contains over 50 building case studies on over 166 pages.
“Ensuring that the future is not a repeatable past“
Over 50 buildings vividly depicted.
Historical Background
A brief history of iconic buildings
Earthquake Strengthening
Insight into employed techniques
Structural Performance
An overview of damage to buildings
Where do sales proceeds go?
100% of profits from this book will go towards funding engineering student scholarships and further research on earthquake-strengthening of masonry buildings.
The more we raise, the more scholarships and research we can fund that will lead to more effective earthquake solutions.
Purchasing this book will help us save lives.
“An outstanding post-earthquake record of strengthened masonry buildings, it will help inform and safeguard the future of other cities in NZ and around the world.”
Win Clark - Expert structural engineer in heritage buildings, Wellington, New Zealand
”An amazing effort; expertly researched! Readers studying the photographs will gain a wealth of information. This book will be of value to engineers in many countries and hopefully lead to better strengthening techniques for heritage buildings.”
David Biggs - Forensic Engineer. Author of “Masonry Aspects of the World Trade Center Disaster”, Principal - Biggs Consulting Engineering, New York, USA
