Cambridge Earthquake Impact Database
 
C
description
Reinforced concrete frame buildings
notes
Majority of recent buildings are of Type C, reinforced concrete frame buildings; their floors and roofs commonly consist of in-situ reinforced filler slabs with ceramic plank fillers, supported on an often irregular grid of square columns; both internal and extranal infill walls often consist of double-skin hollow, loosely-bonded ceramic block; external walls are sometimes of concrete block.
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