CONCRETE BUILDINGS.
Discussing the Melbourne concrete building disaster, a correspondent, " Argus," urges that there is special need for attention to factors assuring stability in Wellington, as. many buildings are on hillsides and subject "to disturbance by earth tremors. The great weight of concrete makes it necessary that there shall be a sufficiently firm foundation to make subsidence impossible; and the correspondent asks what steps are taken to calculate the pressure and assure that rock foundations are found which will hear tho weight.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 7
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82CONCRETE BUILDINGS. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 7
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