Earthquake Proof
A new earthquake-proof brick building process, pioneered in New Zealand by the Pottery and Ceramics Research Association, is being used for a new store in Taita, Lower Hutt. Known as reinforced brickworks, the new technique does away with the need for concrete panels or steel framework for* brick buildings. Instead, the walls are constructed of two skins of bricks laid on edge, with a three inch cavity in the centre. Into this cavity is poured a very wet friixture of cement, sand and pea gravel, into which reinforcing steel is inserted as the wall, only eight or nine inches thick, is built up.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 8
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