Seismic testing of NHERI TallWood Building to set a new record

April 26, 2023 –The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood project will investigate the resilience of tall timber buildings by simulating a series of large earthquakes on a full-scale, 10-story mass timber building this spring.

“This project is the tallest full-scale project to ever be tested on an earthquake table anywhere,” said Dan Dolan, emeritus professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who has worked on the project for almost a decade. “We want to create building designs that will have little damage in earthquakes and still be habitable.”