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While a School of Mines professor works to make wood structures more resilient in earthquakes, a Denver engineer continues to look at the city as a focal point for a mass timber building revolution.

Visionaries making the path to decarbonization easier to follow and skilled managers called in to create expedited fixes in the face of structural failures or to avert disaster are among the 25 individuals who came up with the needed solutions last year.

Lever Architecture and a team of researchers have successfully tested the earthquake-resistant capabilities of a 10-storey mass-timber building.

One sunny morning last month, a simulated earthquake jolted northeast San Diego. Minutes later, another temblor hit, causing a 10-story wood building to sway.

The TallWood building’s ability to withstand back-to-back simulated earthquakes speaks to the natural flexibility of wood construction and the architectural systems designed to strengthen the structure, such as the rocking walls.

One sunny morning last month, an earthquake jolted northeast San Diego. Minutes later, another temblor hit, causing a 10-story wood building to sway.

A ten-story, mass timber tower by LEVER Architecture underwent a shake test to investigate its seismic resiliency.

Simpson Strong-Tie has announced the successful completion of a series of seismic tests on the tallest building yet subjected to earthquake simulations.

A 10-story mass timber tower designed by LEVER Architecture in collaboration with several university and industry partners withstood a recent seismic resiliency test at UCSDs Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.

(SAN DIEGO) -- Researchers have successfully simulated a high magnitude earthquake on the largest building ever tested, and the structure survived. Global interest in mass timber construction -- which involves thick, compressed layers of wood, bonded together, creating structural load-bearing elements -- has skyrocketed in the last several years, after the International Building Code announced the