{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"In The Mix by Northwest Masonry Institute","title":"18. Seven Buildings Stood, the Rest Got Demolished: Why URM Retrofits Actually Work | Mason Moritz","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1203,"description":"After the 2003 Paso Robles earthquake, seven retrofitted unreinforced masonry buildings walked away nearly untouched. The ones that hadn't been strengthened? Torn down. Mason Moritz, once a structural engineer at Holmes in San Francisco, now a field engineer for Python Fasteners, joins the podcast to explain why that story keeps repeating, and why most engineers never hear it.\nPython manufactures the first ICC-certified, seismically rated anchor for existing masonry, born out of the Christchurch earthquake's real-world stress test on New Zealand's historic buildings. Mason's job now is closing the gap he used to sit on the other side of: most engineering programs teach little to no masonry design, so URM gets written off as a liability instead of understood as an asset.  In this episode:The Paso Robles case study: retrofitted URM buildings vs. the ones that got demolishedHow the Christchurch earthquake shaped Python's anchor researchWhy URM has a bad reputation engineers haven't been taught to questionMason's path from Holmes Structural Engineers to studying historic buildings in Portugal and the Czech RepublicClosing the education gap: Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO, and Trento research partnershipsStabilize-in-place vs. rip-out-and-replace, and what's at stake for historic building stockWhy reuse is the ultimate sustainability move: \"the greenest building is the one that's already there\"Learn more about the Northwest Masonry Institute: https://masonryinstitute.com/in-the-mix","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X1bb4Pa1Lwg4qVX_6duAicnGxz9s7Pi3P-AwJ-_qFL4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lOWY0/NDQ2M2MwMmEwN2I1/N2NjZTIwMGQ5OGQ2/ZDI2OC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}