length of wall. Assuming that the wall is reinforced, brick masonry assemblies of the following widths can support the following total widths of deck: -An 8-in. wall: 250 feet. -A 12-in. wall: 500 ...

More extensive retrofittings involve installing diagonal braces or adding reinforced concrete ... of unreinforced masonry buildings. About 70% of the 26,000 brick buildings across California ...

Old brick buildings are one of the deadliest structures ... Other ways of retrofitting include adding to the walls steel-reinforced concrete or layers of glass or carbon fiber and adding plywood ...

Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delray Beach, Fla., was originally designed as reinforced masonry with metal gauge framing, lath and stucco at the facades. The tilt-up conversion features 95 ...

composed of a sequence of reinforced brick Gaussian vaults developed by Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). The cylindrical bell-tower, built in openwork exposed brick masonry, rises from the ground to the ...