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University Physu.nl Plan! Director George Hecht
said that although there is a growing recognition
statewide of the need to improve buildings, the
University is in a fairly safe area
"We re about as prepared as wo could be." he
said. "A* you walk around campus, there's no
building you could point to that you could say is
unsafe."
Hecht said the newest campus nuuoings. sucn
as the science buildings Willamette, Deschutes.
Streisinger and Cast^de. are built to resist earth
quakes.
Several campus buildings, including older
buildings like Desdy and Villard. are built over
large areas of underground bedrock, he said
"Td be very surprised to see a tremendous
amount of damage." Hecht said.
Fred Tetifer of the University Planning office, an
architect, nas advised the University on construc
tion projects. Ho agreed with Hecht that the rock
beneath the campus is helpful, but said it wasn’t
as helpful as sound construction.
He said that at Inast half of all earthquake dan
ger comes from falling debris, both inside and out.
and that in the case of many buildings, the Uni
versity is not ready for a serious quake.
Tepfer used Chapman and Condon halls as
examples of the difference between structural and
non-structureI damage.
"Chapman is mainly a concrete shell surround
ed by bricks,” he said. "Most of the danger there is
from bricks falling on your head."
"In the case of Condon, you've got un-reinforced
bricks With buildings like (hat it’s really difficult
to predict what might happen," he said.
Tepfer said that in the case of older buildings
made of un-reinforced bricks, the possibility of a
total building collapse should be considered, but
that it doos not necessarily mean the building will
crumble in the event of a large quake.
“There are so many details to consider in an
earthquake," Tepfer said. "You’ve got the length,
location and intensity of the quake to consider.
With some of these older buildings the engineers
are just scratching their heads."
Tepfer applauded the housing department for
taking steps to address the problem
“They’re way ahead of the rest of the University
and probably most other state agencies," he said.
“They’re doing a tremendous job.”
University Housing has an important edge over
the rest of the University. As a self-supporting
department, housing has more money for renova
tions and capital improvement.
But in the wake of tight budgets caused by
1990’s Ballot Measure 5. the money to improve
buildings campus-wide is in short supply, if avail
able at all.
Associate Vice Chancellor George Pernsteiner
visited the campus of Oregon institute of Tech
nology in Klamath Falls Wednesday, and said that
campuses statewide are looking there for lessons
on how to prepare for earthquakes in the future.
At the Klamath Falls campus, housing staff
members evacuated the dormitories after both
large quakes and one of the aftershocks. The cam
pus suffered some extensive damage to several of
its buildings, particularly the library and student
union.
"They're really lucky that no one was in either
one of those buildings when the quake hap
pened." Pemstoiner said.
Pernsteiner said a recent study of buildings at
Oregon State University showed that to bring
existing buildings up to current building codes is
an expensive undertaking and unlikely because of
the current shortage of money.
Construction costs alone on any one building
can easily reach into the millions. Pernsteiner
said. He said Physical Plant directors from cam
puses around the state will discuss cheap ways of
minimizing earthquake damage at their next meet
ing on Oct. 8.
"We have a number of safety concerns, but we
just don't have a pot of money to deal with them
all right now." he said. "So we're trying to deter
mine what we can do operationally to minimize
the damage without major reconstruction projects.
Right now we have to ask how many class sections
do we cancel to take care of these problems."
One example of this kind of preparation might
tie to widen bookshelves in the library and link
them all together across the top. Pernsteiner said.
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