PROJECT SHOWCASE

Beca Christchurch provided a cutting-edge Tectonus solution that removed two concrete shear walls from the conventional design, creating space, light and cost savings for the client.

Dialog and Fast + Epp found a way to make North America's tallest all-timber brace frame building in a high seismic area using Tectonus technology.

Structure Design won their client's approval for this 13-story apartment building with an innovative retrofit scheme that saw a concrete shear wall converted to a rocking shear wall with Tectonus hold-downs.

Award-winning structural engineering firm Fast + Epp wanted their Vancouver head office to be sustainable and resilient, opting for CLT shearwalls and Tectonus seismic hold downs. 

CGW Engineers wanted a cost-effective way to deliver a resilient design for this high-importance level building, that didn't add bulk to the structure. 

Timber Engineering designed this showcase CLT structure which was built in just 15 days. Tectonus hold-downs enable near zero residual drift in a design-level earthquake.

Dunning Thornton needed to earthquake-proof a stunning design by Studio Pacific architects, that mirrored the distant mountain skyline with a folded plate roof structure. 

Founded in 1952, Tawa Baptist Church sits on a seismically active zone and needed retrofitting to increase resiliency. The engineer's Tectonus-based solution came in at half the client's budget. 

Beca designed the new civic center and library building for Ashburton District Council. A damping-only Tectonus solution combined with post-tensioning achieved the right balance of damping and self-centering.  

WSP engineers went with rocking CLT shear walls and Tectonus hold-downs for this multi- story timber structure housing a new administration office, reception, staff offices and classroom.