Construction vehicles near Memorial Stadium. Photo: Niclas Ericsson By Niclas Ericsson The east side of Piedmont Avenue – one of the main routes across the top of the UC Berkeley campus – was shut down May 23 for the summer, leading some nearby residents to complain about the continuing disruption caused by construction projects in […]
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Inside Memorial Stadium’s quake retrofit
Julian Smith delves inside some of the engineering of Memorial Stadium’s quake retrofit in the current issue of Wired. The video above explains two of the more clever aspects of the retrofit: the two free-floating surface rupture blocks and the support walls and shock absorbers for the press box.
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BBC checks out Memorial Stadium fault — by chopper
The BBC's "Naked Earth" crew landed in Berkeley's Memorial Stadium. Photo: Andrea Hicklin. A couple of weeks ago — darn, how did we miss this? — the BBC touched down by helicopter at California Memorial Stadium to film a segment for the show Naked Earth BBC series Naked Earth, which is likely to be renamed when […]
