NHERI Tallwood Megaproject: a research and industry partnership. DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner catches up with Jeff Berman, NHERI Tallwood co-PI and earthquake engineer from the University of Washington. Berman explains how “mega-projects” like Tallwood simply can’t be done without significant collaboration between academia and industry experts at companies such as Simpson Strong-Tie, Swinerton and others with expertise in building construction, engineering, and mass timber design.

The NHERI Tallwood project is funded by the National Science Foundation, with support from many industry partners.

The shake table experiment is slated for early April, 2023. Follow the NHERI Tallwood project via the live video stream at UC San Diego: http://nheri.ucsd.edu/video/.

More #NHERITallwood partners on Twitter: @NHERI_UCSD @UCSanDiego @UCSDJacobs @NSF @slpei @commresilience @MinesCEE @coschoolofmines @CEMCO_steel @csinconline @strongtie @TechGlassProd @uwengineering

#NHERITallwood #CLT #Crosslaminatedtimber #massTimber #rockingwalls #naturalhazards #resilience #NSFfunded #earthquakeEngineering #NSFStories

Get the backstory on NHERI Tallwood: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/

Looking for earthquake shaking data? Visit the NHERI DesignSafe Data Depot, a public repository of natural hazards research data. https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/

On Twitter: Follow Shiling Pei (@slpei), Principal Investigator for #NHERITallwood. While you’re at it, follow NHERI DesignSafe (@NHERIDesignSafe) for all things related to natural hazards engineering.

DYK? UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home the world’s largest outdoor shake table. It’s called LHPOST, the Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table.