Length: 1.5 hours
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Seismic concerns are a sleeping dragon under this City – with some recognition of risks, but with only slow, gradually enacted precautions. Victoria’s existing housing and heritage building stock each have worrisome vulnerabilities. How can we alert and better motivate ourselves, and our community, on these pending threats? This panel discussion will explore this topic with several subject matter experts.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the seismic urgency for Victoria.
- Articulate the seismic-related vulnerabilities in Victoria's existing housing building stock.
- Articulate the seismic-related vulnerabilities in Victoria’s existing heritage building stock.
- Describe strategies to motivate the architecture profession to respond to the pending seismic threat
This session was supported by the Victoria Hallmark Society and UNESCO Victoria World Heritage City Project.
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS:
Panel Moderator: Gregor Craigie, CBC Commentator, and the author of “On Borrowed Time, North America’s Next Big Quake"
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Panel Moderator: Gregor Craigie, CBC Commentator, and the author of “On Borrowed Time, North America’s Next Big Quake”. Gregor Craigie is no stranger to Vancouver Island. He covered many stories on the island during his time as CBC TVs Victoria reporter. He studied history at the University of Calgary, and Broadcast Journalism at the B.C. Institute of Technology. His first radio job was reporting for CKWX in Vancouver. In 1999 he moved to the United Kingdom where he joined the BBC World Service in London as a news announcer and producer. While in London, Gregor also reported for the American network CBS radio as well as freelancing for CBC Radio. When it got really busy he would file for all three news organizations, occasionally working twenty hours a day. For rest and relaxation he traveled to Europe, Africa, and Asia to work as a freelancer. Following his BBC/CBC/CBS days, Gregor returned to Canada and to the CBC exclusively. Most recently he has worked as a producer on The Current and a radio reporter in the Kootenays. |
Panel Introduction: Professor Martin Segger, Associate Fellow Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
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Martin Segger’s administrative and academic career has included the positions of Director of Art Galleries and Collections at the University of Victoria, and adjunct professor in the Department of History in Art, Faculty of Fine Arts. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Diploma of Education (Secondary Curriculum) from the University of Victoria, and a Master of Philosophy in Renaissance Cultural Studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London, where he studied under Prof. Sir Ernst Gombrich. In 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and 1999 a Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association. He has served as president of the Society of Architectural Historian, Pacific North West Chapter and President of the Commonwealth Association of Museums. He has consulted and taught historic preservation planning in South America and Africa. His areas of academic research, teaching and curatorship are architectural history and decorative arts, also heritage and museums studies. |
Panelist 1: Armin Bebamzadeh, PhD, PEng, Research Associate at UBC Earthquake
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Dr. Armin Bebamzadeh is currently a Research Associate at the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF) at UBC. His research is focused on the development and implementation of performance-based design methods for seismic assessment and retrofit design of low- and mid-rise buildings; implementation of high performance computing tools for structural and geotechnical nonlinear dynamic analysis, reliability analysis, and optimization. Dr. Bebamzadeh closely collaborates with researchers at UBC and professionals from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia to develop a set of innovative, cost-effective assessment and retrofit guidelines titled, “Seismic Retrofit Guidelines.” As part of these guidelines, Dr. Bebamzadeh has developed several Seismic Performance Analyzers, which are web-based tools for the performance-based seismic assessment and retrofit of low- and mid-rise buildings in British Columbia Dr. Bebamzadeh has coordinated, provided training and technical support for different engineering firms and participated in several seismic retrofit projects. Dr. Bebamzadeh has received several awards for his research accomplishments at EERF, including the Engineering a Better Canada Award (2013), the Lieutenant Governor's Award of Excellence (2013), and the Innovation Award of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (2010). |
Panelist 2: Jason Ingham PhD, MBA, FengNZ - New Zealand Seismic Engineer
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Jason did his BE(Hons) and ME(Dist) at The University of Auckland, followed by a PhD at the University of California at San Diego. Supervised by Professor Nigel Priestley and Professor Freider Seible, he investigated the seismic response of elevated concrete freeway frames and was funded by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Jason joined the University of Auckland as a staff member in 1995 and undertook an MBA in 2004. In that same year, Jason was awarded a $3.75m research grant funded by the NZ Foundation for Research Science and Technology, investigating and developing guidelines for seismic assessment and retrofit of earthquake-prone buildings. The project was a collaboration with The University of Canterbury and collectively involved 27 PhD studies. Jason then extended his research interests to include the use of recycled or waste materials in concrete, and the condition assessment of concrete bridges. More recently Jason has developed a strong interest in working with Māori and Pasifika communities to forward their research aspirations. |
Panelist 3: Graham Taylor Ph.D.,P.Eng. - TBG Seismic Consultants, Victoria
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Graham Taylor is a practicing structural consulting engineer who has specialized in seismic engineering over the past 30 years. Graham has been the engineer-of-record for the seismic retrofit of nine schools for the Greater Victoria School District. Graham has also overseen the seismic upgrading of residential homes for a number of concerned Greater Victoria residents. Graham’s seismic engineering practice has been a combination of practice innovation and applied research. Graham’s applied research experience includes the 15-year Seismic Mitigation Program (BC Ministry of Education) and more than 20 years of collaboration with the University of British Columbia (UBC) on a range of applied research projects. Graham is a lead member of the Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia Technical Review Board Steering Committee for the $2.5 billion British Columbia school seismic mitigation program (SMP). Graham’s earthquake preparedness focus over the past five years has been on the development and installation of Prioritized Post-Earthquake Response (PPR) Networks for empowering building managers and occupants in prudent, resilient post-event decision-making. |
Pricing is $15.00