Seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings plays an important role in improving resilience of the built environment in earthquake-prone areas. This event will comprise two talks from speakers based in Ottawa, Canada, and Christchurch, New Zealand. The first talk will discuss the seismic retrofit of Ottawa’s federal parliament building, Centre Block, which is unusual in that it incorporates seismic base isolation in an area of moderate seismic hazard. The second talk will focus on the approaches and experiences from the seismic retrofit of existing buildings in New Zealand. This talk will focus on how the industry has handed the changes in the National Hazard Model and the adaption of a new scoring system in retrofit methodology.

This talk will cover the topic of seismic risk. 

For a full synopsis, see also the main page for the 19th Mallet-Milne Lecture.