Government unveils three investors’ £550m commitment to boost housing development

Schroders, Man Group and Resonance announce impact investment funds looking to raise over £1.2bn for housing development. The post Government unveils three investors’ £550m commitment to boost housing development appeared first on Property Week.

Why engineers must always consider human induced vibration

Human induced vibration, or more accurately vibrations caused by human footfall, often conjures images of Millennium Bridge-style swaying or collapsing … The post Why engineers must always consider human induced vibration appeared first on Inside Construction.

The Efficient Engineer - Understanding Vibration and Resonance 21102021

This video looks at how vibrating systems can be modelled, starting with the "lumped parameter modeling" approach and "single degree of freedom" models. The video then looks at damping, the dissipation of energy that occurs in all real systems, as well as forced vibration, resonance and multiple degree of freedom models.

MegaStructures - World Trade Center Bahrain (National Geographic Documentary) 11072015

The Bahrain World Trade Center, with its two 50-storey glass 'sails' that are powered by a revolutionary new means for a building of this size ... wind! Architect Sean Kela hopes the shape and orientation of the towers will funnel the wind directly into the turbines path. The tapering shape of the towers also means they will funnel more wind to the lower turbine and less wind to the higher one making all three rotate at roughly the same speed, yielding approximately the same amount of power

TED Ed (Animation) - Why do buildings fall in earthquakes? 26012015

Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon, and they’ve become more deadly as our cities have grown — with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks. But why do buildings collapse in an earthquake? And how can it be prevented? Vicki V. May explains the physics of why it is not the sturdiest buildings, but the smartest, that will remain standing.