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Chilean engineering: Building for earthquakes
Friday, May 21st, 2010Rodrigo Mujica is clearly proud of the work he and his colleagues do at VMB in Chile, and rightly so. VMB is an engineering company with a staff of 40 to 50 and it specializes in building for earthquakes. Quake-proof construction. Yesterday, Rodrigo gave a presentation at the University of Portsmouth. Foster and Partners had invited Rodrigo to give a presentation at its headquarters in London, and that is how Rodrigo happened to be in the neighborhood.
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One of the first things Rodrigo Mujica showed us was a video taken by a surveillance camera on the 12th floor of a building that was at quite some distance from the epicenter. It was impressive.