A realistic and fully costed comparison of different structural systems to determine how loadbearing masonry compares to wood frame and cast in palace concrete

A new study, conducted by local 3rd

Nollet, Marie-José1; Abo El Ezz, Ahmad2; Moretti, Pascal3 and Boldireff, Éric3

1 Professor, Department of Construction Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame St. W., Montreal, QC, Canada, marie-jose.nollet@etsmtl.ca
2 Post-Doctoral Fellow,

Incera, Antonio1; Reyes, Andrés2 and Murillo, Minor3

1 Dipl.-Ing., Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, Civil Engineering Department, Heredia, Costa Rica
2 Professor and researcher Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, Civil Engineering Department,

Seyedain Boroujeni, Setare1 and Shrive, Nigel2

1 Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, setare.seyedain@gmail.com
2 Professor, Department of

Brodsky, Alex1; Rabinovitch, Oded2 and Yankelevsky, David Z.3

1 PhD student, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, brod@technion.ac.il
2 Professor, Abel Wolman Chair in

Brodsky, Alex1; Rabinovitch, Oded2 and Yankelevsky, David Z.3

1 PhD student, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, brod@technion.ac.il
2 Professor, Abel Wolman Chair in

Castori, Giulio1; Borri, Antonio2; Corradi, Marco3 and Luca, Righetti4

1 Researcher, Dept. of Engineering, Perugia University, Via Duranti, 92 06125 Perugia, Italy giulio.castori@unipg.it
2 Professor, Dept. of Engineering, Perugia University, Via Duranti,

Jannasch, Emanuel1

1 Senior Instructor, Dalhousie University School of Architecture, 5410 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, NS, Canada, jannasch@dal.ca

ABSTRACT
The author and his students have built several counter-intuitive and in some cases unprecedented

Schultz, Arturo E.1

Prof., Dept. of Civil, Envir., and Geo- Engrg., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 55455, schul088@umn.edu

ABSTRACT
On 16 April 2016, a magnitude (Mw) 7.8 earthquake struck coastal Ecuador and generated

Hossain, Md Akhtar1; Totoev, Yuri Zarevich2; Masia, Mark J.3 and Friend, Mark4

1 PhD Student, Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, The University of Newcastle, Australia, Md.Akhtar.Hossain@uon.edu.au
2 Senior Lecturer, Centre for