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Mines researchers aim to get “earthquake proof” lateral system for tall wood buildings added to U.S. building code

With funding from the Charles Pankow Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service, Shiling Pei and his team have begun a FEMA P695 study on the mass timber rocking wall lateral system, the first step toward submitting a proposal for an official update to the ASCE-7.

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