I craned my neck to see the city’s medley of buildings: soaring glass towers, squat concrete warehouses, and solid brick low-rises. I worry about old brick buildings in Victoria, where I live, and Vancouver because so many could collapse in strong shaking. Engineers took notice when those towers withstood the violent shaking better than brick buildings. But American engineers began using it ubiquitously, and a decade later it was written into the U.S. building code. He was a member of the Building Performance Assessment Team that investigated the World Trade Center collapse in New York.

Source: National Post May 22, 2019 12:00 UTC