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Mario Lafontaine
Rene Lagos Engineers, Director of New Technologies | Santiago, Chile
About
Mario Lafontaine is a Structural Engineer from the University of Chile and is partner and seismic technologies Director of Rene Lagos Engineers, an international structural engineering firm with its headquarters located in Chile and director of the Chilean Association on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, ACHISINA. He has participated in the design and peer review of numerous tall buildings located in high seismicity areas such as Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Bulgaria and is part of several Chilean design codes committees such as Seismic Analysis and Design of Buildings (NCh433), Reinforced Concrete Design (NCH430), Seismic Analysis and Design of Buildings with seismic isolation (NCh2745) and the future code of Performance Based Design of Buildings.
CTBUH Roles
Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2014; Middle East 2018)
CTBUH Initiatives
Second CTBUH Damping Research Meeting
26 October 2015
Seismic Issues Workshop, Shanghai 2014
16 September 2014
Videos
16 September 2014
Seismic Base Isolation of the Nunoa Capital Building
The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Chile earthquake caused more than 30 billion US dollars in direct losses. The indirect losses remain unknown, but it is...
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Research
22 December 2023
Challenges to Achieving Resilient Seismic Behavior at Qorner, Quito
Mario Lafontaine, Nicolas Maldonado & Milton Vicentelo
With a unique architecture and a very tight site, the vertical elements that transfer the gravity loads of a 26-story residential building to the foundation...
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Research
16 September 2014
Seismic Base Isolation of the Nunoa Capital Building
Rene Lagos & Mario Lafontaine, Rene Lagos Engineers; Ruben Boroschek & Rodrigo Retamales, Ruben Boroschek and Associates
The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Chile earthquake caused more than 30 billion US dollars in direct losses. The indirect losses remain unknown, but it is...
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CTBUH Initiatives
26 October 2015
Second CTBUH Damping Research Meeting
Nearly 30 industry professionals and academic experts were in attendance at the second meeting for the CTBUH research project on damping.
19 May 2015
First Meeting for CTBUH Damping Technologies Research
More than 40 industry and academic experts convened at CTBUH Chicago to mark the launch of the Bouygues Construction-funded damping initiative.
16 September 2014
Seismic Issues Workshop, Shanghai 2014
Seismic issues tend to be the predominant controlling factor in tall building structural design, particularly along the Pacific Rim.
Videos
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16 September 2014
Seismic Base Isolation of the Nunoa Capital Building
The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Chile earthquake caused more than 30 billion US dollars in direct losses. The indirect losses remain unknown, but it is...
16 September 2014
2014 Shanghai International Conference - Technical Workshop 06 - Q & A
2014 Shanghai International Conference Technical Workshop 06 Questions & Answers session with speakers Kanokpat Chanvaivit, Bouygues – Thai Co. Ltd.; Chunhe (Henry) Li, Buro Happold;...
Research
22 December 2023
Challenges to Achieving Resilient Seismic Behavior at Qorner, Quito
Mario Lafontaine, Nicolas Maldonado & Milton Vicentelo
With a unique architecture and a very tight site, the vertical elements that transfer the gravity loads of a 26-story residential building to the foundation...
16 September 2014
Seismic Base Isolation of the Nunoa Capital Building
Rene Lagos & Mario Lafontaine, Rene Lagos Engineers; Ruben Boroschek & Rodrigo Retamales, Ruben Boroschek and Associates
The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Chile earthquake caused more than 30 billion US dollars in direct losses. The indirect losses remain unknown, but it is...
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