INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROBLEMS OF MULTISTORIED BUILDINGS’ SEISMIC RESISTANCE SYSTEMS TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON JUNE 15-17

Noyan Tapan
Jun 14 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, NOYAN TAPAN. An international conference on
problems of seismic resistance systems of multistoried buildings
with the participation of 42 experts from 9 countries will be held
in Yerevan on June 15-17. Mikael Melkumian, chief expert of the
engineering research center at the American University of Armenia,
Chairman of the Armenian Seismic Resistant Construction Association,
announced this during a press conference on June 13.

According to him, Armenia is one of the world’s leaders in the
development and use of seismic-proof rubber-metal systems. The sector’s
development started in 1994. Particularly, Armenia is the only country
where seismic insulation of residential and school buildings was done
during their use without moving residents temporarily to other places
and discontinuation of the edicational process. Besides, the tallest
buildings with seismic insulation in Europe – 16-storey ones are in
Yerevan. Buildings that have more than 16 floors and are provided with
seismic insulation are only in Japan and China. There are 30 buildings
with seismic insulation in Armenia (some of them were previously build,
others are under construction).

M. Melkumian reminded that the 8th world forum on seismic construction
took place in Yerevan in 2003.