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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by scythe on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:14PM (#16700261)
There are some brick buildings in the Mediterranean which are seismically resistant. Italy, the birthplace of concrete, is seismically active after all:

https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-...

I'm curious as to whether wood-over-brick could allow taller structures than wood or brick alone. Building cheaply in the 50-85 foot range (high-rise regulations kick in above a floor height of 75 feet) is an important challenge going forward and hard to do with wood alone.

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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by seandougall on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @09:10PM (#16703704)
It turns out concrete and brick have completely different, almost polar opposite, seismic properties. Here in CA, concrete is what you want a foundation to be made from. We learned the hard way that brick foundations are prone to crumbling.

Brick is certainly strong up to a point, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.

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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by jaggederest on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:38PM (#16701104)
The latest changes to the international building code include some rules allowing masonry under wood, which is why there's an explosion of midrise apartment buildings in my area at least.
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