A housing project is underway in Parand, Iran using seismic rubber bearings designed by MRB and manufactured by a Malaysian company. Parand is 40km from Tehran. The project, consisting of 150 blocks of building apartments of 8 and 12-storey high, is awarded to Amona International Venture, a Malaysian company. It is expected that more than 8,000 rubber bearings will be used, making it the world's largest application of seismic rubber bearings in a single project.
On 9th November 2007, the installation of the seismic rubber bearings started. A total of 196 rubber bearings would be installed for the first three blocks of 12-storey high apartments.
Iran is situated in a very seismic area of the world and is constantly under threats from devastating earthquakes. Since 2004 MRB has been actively promoting seismic rubber bearing technology in Iran. A seminar on seismic rubber bearing was jointly organized by MRB and the Iranian International Institute of Earthquake Engineering & Seismology (IIEES) in 2004. The Seminar was a success because the Iranians were very keen to adopt the technology and MRB got the breakthrough with the commencement of the Parand project. MRB is involved in the design, testing and manufacturing of the bearings for the Parand project.
Presently more than 8000 structures (buildings and bridges) in the world's seismically-prone areas (USA, Japan, Italy, China, Taiwan and New Zealand) have been installed with rubber bearings. Iran has now joined this group of nations which believe that their population and structures will be well protected in the event of a major earthquake were to strike their nations.
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