Seismic Resistant Planning and Design
The coastal regions of Planet Earth are shifting, dynamic zones located on fault lines between tectonic plates and prone to seismic activity - yet it is often these most geologically unstable places where maritime developments need to be located. Royal Haskoning’s Seismic Resistant Planning and Design Team help design and build projects around the world that can withstand the planet’s earthquakes.
A member of the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED), Royal Haskoning is continually using new technologies and refining traditional techniques to design and engineer structures that can cope with seismic activity. The team raises awareness of seismic hazards and undertakes analysis as well as being at the forefront of seismic resistant construction.
The Seismic Resistant Planning and Design team’s work includes planning and designing ports, dockyards and navigation cannels for construction in areas at risk of seismic activity. Our team produces seismic resistant designs for a wide-range of structures including:
• Large quays and dock walls
• Mooring and berthing structures, jetties, wharves and breakwaters
• Dry docks, large dock gates and ship life structures
Royal Haskoning’s team carries out seismic hazard assessment – reports that establish ground motion criteria including peak ground accelerations and ground response spectra and also identify other potential problems such as liquefaction. Building on the analysis, the team can design, specify, supervise and interpret the ground investigations specifically for seismic design.
When designing projects and solutions, Royal Haskoning’s team works to all the internationally recognised seismic engineering codes:
• Eurocode 8
• PIANC WG34
• Uniform and International Building Codes
• American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Concrete Institute
• Indian seismic code
• Japanese seismic code
• Egyptian seismic code
• Russian seismic code