. Architect and engineer. s-sons drawn from the structural sufferingsof the earthquake-stricken region, nor tostudy for its own possible use. the meanswhich are here offered for remedy—meanswhich may be applied with equal effect asreal and tangible measures of we agree with the logic of the old prov-erb which relates to prevention and to cure,we must concede that the value of the oneis sixteen times the well-established valueof the other. Necessity compels the reconstruction ofbuildings in the area most recently shaken,but a wise public policy prescribes that therebuilding be so
. Architect and engineer. s-sons drawn from the structural sufferingsof the earthquake-stricken region, nor tostudy for its own possible use. the meanswhich are here offered for remedy—meanswhich may be applied with equal effect asreal and tangible measures of we agree with the logic of the old prov-erb which relates to prevention and to cure,we must concede that the value of the oneis sixteen times the well-established valueof the other. Necessity compels the reconstruction ofbuildings in the area most recently shaken,but a wise public policy prescribes that therebuilding be so designed and carried outas to provide a reasonable degree of re-sistance to the kind of external forces whichcaused the original damage. Many materials, properly used, are fillingan important part in the reconstructionprogram in the earthquake area. This art-icle deals primarily with one of them^—Concrete—but does not attempt to docomplete justice to its every use. For var-ious reasons it has many advantageous ap- 1.
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