[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] National Earthquake Conference - Public Event Announcement, Memphis, April 10th

[Oliver Boyd]

Hello Friends and Supporters,
The National Earthquake Conference is upon us, and we've put together an
exciting presentation about our work on South Main in Memphis and our
efforts to retrofit aging brick buildings. It's free and open to the public.

Please push this out to your networks and calendars.

Thanks again for all the support!

South Main Retrofit Demonstration Project Public Event Announcement
A cross-disciplinary series of presentations and a panel Q & A. We want to
call attention to these culturally important buildings that are also fragile
and need to be properly maintained, repaired, and retrofit so they can last
into the future. We want to emphasize not just seismic, but also
multi-hazard resilience, best-practices conservation technology, and energy
saving improvements.

The South Main Retrofit Demonstration Project lays out a roadmap to address
these issues for thousands of bearing wall brick main-street style buildings
in the mid-south. The first phase is design and construction to retrofit one
building, which will serve as an event and exhibit space. From there we will
develop strategies that could lead to most of these buildings being retrofit
within 25 years. These buildings are about 100 years old; Memphis has been
reclaiming them from decay and re-purposing them for contemporary uses. Our
goal is to prepare them to last another 100 years.

We are presenting a free public panel on our work to date at the Peabody
Hotel in Memphis, Venetian Room on April 10 from 7 to 9:30pm. (Hosted
reception with light refreshments at 6:30). Please come join us!

This event is part of the National Earthquake Conference which is coming to
Memphis on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the great New Madrid
Earthquakes. 


Best Regards,

Dmitry Ozeryansky

2254 Nelson Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
office: 901-305-6540 <tel:901-305-6540>
cell: 510-287-6115 <tel:510-287-6115>
fax: 877-228-5280 <tel:877-228-5280>
 www.ozerengineering.com <http://www.ozerengineering.com> 
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