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How did the United States overcome and rise up from being a once backwards country, to being one of the one of the most influential nations the world has witnessed? The United States pioneered countless types of industries that required the best of innovators’ knowledge on science and technological advancements. Therefore, science has a fundamental part in America’s ever so rapid advancement in comparison to the rest of the world. For instance, most high rises across Southern California were built using the welded steel moment-frame construction (WSMF) method which was believed to be earthquake-proof as steel is considered strong and ductile. In 1994 however, Northridge was hit with a devastating earthquake which led to the fall of many WSMF structures. Despite the Northridge earthquake being a disastrous event, it encouraged innovators to move past the WSMF method of construction to eventually develop a seismic base isolation system which then became one of the most common methods used to protect structures from seismic activities.

Compared to most countries that experience high frequencies of seismic activities, the United States remains more well equipped to safely get by earthquakes of greater scales. Haiti is a country located on an Island within close proximity of the United States’ East Coast and is prone to getting frequent earthquakes. Many buildings in Haiti are still built on fixed bases, meaning that they are built directly on the ground and are therefore more likely to collapse even at an event of a smaller scale earthquake.

Science is a deeply vast topic that has a great impact on the advancement of many professions, particularly innovative practices. Today, science has become an integral part of our everyday lives as the whole world has unanimously experienced what it was like to live in a time of uncertainty which caused the yearning for people to become scientifically literate.

At HMT Architects, we acknowledge the variety of scientific issues that our world is facing and our role is to stay up to date with scientific innovation that relates to overall structure, building and user efficiency. -HMT Architects Team

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