Kiwi structural engineer. Tweets about buildings, earthquakes and the occasional cricket meme
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Andy Baird retweeted
Awful to see such tragic loss in Myanmar when it has already suffered so terribly from the years of war on the people. The fortitude to endure this suffering is incredible. Help must get to the people. Wishing all strength to those in Myanmar. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Andy Baird retweeted
"Disasters like this make an unfair world even more unfair. Those who have the least often lose the most" says Oscar-winning actress & @UNDP Goodwill Ambassador @michelle_Yeoh7 as she reflects on #MyanmarEarthquake that's affected #Thailand #China too. #Myanmar
Andy Baird retweeted
Time to commit, time to do it well. Add your voice with @CityAklccrg and me to make the pedestrianisation of Queen Street a reality: action.greens.org.nz/pedestr…
Andy Baird retweeted
Lots of people asking if Russians *really* believe the state’s propaganda. Look at your bonkers anti-vax uncle in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 or 🇨🇦, and ask the same question. Then realize that they have access to high quality, fact checked independent media. You’ve answered the question.
Andy Baird retweeted
What a putt! 👏
Lydia Ko takes a one-stroke lead with three holes to play in Boca.
Watch now on @GolfChannel!
Andy Baird retweeted
The other benefit to mass timber is it goes up *really* quick
This from @WaughThistleton in London source: instagram.com/p/CUaIICzjZwh/…
Andy Baird retweeted
✨Lagoon✨
This is the Taramakau River, which I live right by.
Paradise I tell ya ☺️
Andy Baird retweeted
Naples new metro station looking incredible in mass timber 👇👇
Designed by Benedetta Tagliabue - Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Via @DomusWeb
Andy Baird retweeted
Hamish Bond never, ever, ever buys a beer in NZ again.
@TheNZTeam @RowingNZ
Andy Baird retweeted
Sweden shuts down the second-largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country - a cement factory
dezeen.com/2021/07/14/swedis…
Andy Baird retweeted
The fancy street lights in the area around the burning factory in Samut Prakarn came at a huge cost…some of that money might have been better spent on firefighting equipment… Al Jazeera on Thailand’s expensive street lights youtu.be/7cQtghskh-U – at Phra Khanong, Thailand
Andy Baird retweeted
“There is currently no way to construct a glass box that will achieve a high level of thermal performance. Glass boxes are unique in that they perform terribly year-round. These are facts of physics.”
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Andy Baird retweeted
To deter people circulating images of the Myanmar junta's atrocities on social media, "soldiers and the police routinely search civilians’ phones for protest photographs or videos." “'If you are arrested with video clips, you can go to prison.'” nytimes.com/2021/04/01/world…
Andy Baird retweeted
10 years ago at 2:46 pm JST on 3/11 (or 9:46 pm 3/10 in the PNW), the Japan Trench megathrust slipped 60-80 meters in one go. The movement launched a tsunami that was among the largest ever seen with water run-up to 38 meters in places (124 feet: an 11 story building). (1/n)
Andy Baird retweeted
A tale of two tsunami: looks like tsunami waves from the M8.1 quake are now arriving at a tide gauge station on North Island; the earlier signal is due to the M7.3 earthquake that was located much closer to the area. Both show amplitudes on the order of tens of centimeters.
Andy Baird retweeted
A substantial variation in mechanism, depth and location from different agencies for the M7.3 earthquake off the coast of New Zealand, suggesting that this may be a complex earthquake
emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/ear…
