Description

Careful design and construction monitoring of secondary structural elements will ensure good earthquake performance, which can save lives and costs.

This Practice Advisory advises how to improve the performance of secondary structural elements during earthquakes.

Scope

This Practice Advisory includes:

• Purpose
• Secondary structural elements
• Issues of concern
• Building Code requirements and supporting documents
• Designing for earthquake actions
• Non-load bearing walls
• Columns
• Floors
• Stairs
• Precast panels
• Differential inter-storey drift
  • For engineers/designers
  • For BCAs
  • Buildings with low-damage systems
• Construction monitoring
  • For BCAs
• Maintenance
• References
• Further information resources