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B.C. researchers develop spray on solution to costly quake conundrum

By Geordon Omand – THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct 11, 2017

VANCOUVER – It was while flipping through British Columbia's seismic upgrade guidelines at the beginning of his civil engineering master's degree that Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki first realized something was amiss.He noticed that…

Architecture

Engineers: lives lost in Mexico quake could have been saved

By Garance Burke - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct 11, 2017

MEXICO CITY – Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that collapsed in Mexico City's monstrous earthquake last month were built using a construction method that is now forbidden in seismic hotspots in the United States, Chile and New Zealand,…