A8 -Sunday News, August 24, 1980

An “‘advanced = con-
struction technique"
designed to makes buildings
resistant to earthquakes, will
be giving Lower Lonsdale
the shakes for the next eight
to ten weeks.

But according to Graham
Tudor, an architect involved
with the = project, no
buildings are endangered by
the vibrations and he does
not expect there to be any

complaints from _ nearby
residents.
The site preparation

GIANT'S FOOTPRINTS are the result of a process known as “dynamic con-
solidation”, currently being used at the Lonsdale Quay development in order to
protect the buildings against earthquakes. Weights weighing 20 tons, pictured here,
are dropped from a height of 100 feet in order to compact the soil and give it added
/strength. (Terry Peters photo)

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Earthquake proofing
makes earth quake

process, known as ‘dynamic
consolidation’, involves
dropping a 20 ton weight
from a height of 100 feet.

This process compacts the
soil for 20 feet or more
below the surface and will
make the treated sites in the
Lonsdale Quay development”
resistant to earthquakes fora
200 year cycle, by making
the soil beneath the
buildings far stronger than
usual

Tudor says that’ the
vibrations resulting from this

balls.

tion.

work are about 10 per cent
as powerful of those
necessary to cause any
damage to surrounding
buildings. .

“We don’t expect anybody
in the neighborhood (o voice
any objections,” said Tudor,
noting ‘that “you get
vibrations even with pile
driving.”

He said that more sand
was being brought in to
muffle the sound of the work
even more.

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