Saturday, January 20, 2007

More Seismic Upgrades

The carpenters have been busy installing the shear walls throughout the ground floor. The shear walls will provide a great deal of lateral strength in the case of a major earthquake. The plywood used is particularly strong (it's expensive at more than $80 per sheet).

2 Comments:

Matthew said...

In this context, I believe "sheer walls" should be spelled "shear walls", as they are intended to resisting the shearing forces that occur during an earthquake.
Also, I believe "Seizemic" should be spelled "seismic".

I've enjoyed the story so far.

4/14/2007 10:06:00 PM  
Erik Grossman said...

Thanks for the corrections to the typos. The blog has been updated to reflect the changes.

4/16/2007 08:58:00 PM  

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