Live Roundtable Celebrating Seismic Retrofitting Project Publications

Join us for this free virtual event bringing together a multidisciplinary group of professionals to discuss the development of seismic retrofitting techniques for earthen architecture. 

January 31, 2022
10:00 am to 12:00 pm (Los Angeles time)
via Zoom

Free, Advanced Registration Required

Background

For millennia humans have constructed buildings of earth. A universal and ever-present material, earth appears in ancient archaeological sites as well as in twentieth-century complexes. Over the past thirty years, we’ve been working to advance the field of earthen conservation. In 2009, we launched the Seismic Retrofitting Project in Peru to adapt techniques from our previous Getty Seismic Adobe Project to better match the equipment, materials, and technical skills available in other countries with historic earthen sites.

Using four Peruvian historic earthen buildings representing typologies across Latin America, the project is designing, testing, and implementing seismic retrofitting techniques and maintenance programs with locally available materials that will improve the structural performance and safety of earthen buildings while minimizing loss of historic fabric.

Publications

Six publications are now available for free download, in English and Spanish, from the Seismic Retrofitting Project’s work. They cover topics from damage assessment of historic earthen sites after the 2007 Pisco earthquake to detail construction assessment and testing and modeling results of the Peruvian historic earthen buildings selected for further study. The final volume will be guidelines for seismic retrofitting of historic earthen sites.

Panelists

Claudia Cancino, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute, USA

Paulo Lourenço, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

Susan Macdonald, Head, Buildings and Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute, USA

Daniel Torrealva, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Peru

Luis Villacorta Santamato, (Moderator), Consultant Architect, Getty Conservation Institute, USA