DECKED OUT

摘要

Thanks to current building codes, houses in the earthquake-prone parts of California are likely to cost a lot more to build than their more stably placed equivalents in the rest of country. But a simple new method of building shear walls has recently passed the shake test—and its low cost may very well revolutionize how buildings are built in the San Francisco Bay area and other regions prone to sudden lateral forces, be they earthquakes or hurricanes.