Lessons from Wenchuan Earthquake Building for People

WenChuan earthquake has caused tremendous life and economic losses and huge mental hurt.The Earthquake reveals a shortage of consciousness in earthquake resistant designs for common buildings.Buildings' earthquake resistant performance depends on its structural design,but more importantly,we should avoid building cities on the fracture zone so as to reduce the probability of heavy loss caused by geological disasters.As for the design of single building, attention should be paid that unusual shapes will aggravate the impact by earthquake.In addition,quality control and process management during construction are important to assure the earthquake resistance of structure.