Background Information
School Seismic Safety: Falling Between the Cracks? August 2004
(download .pdf file)
Critique of Douglas Copp's "Earthquake Tips"
(download .pdf file)
1989 Seismic Assessment of Vancouver School Buildings by the Transit Bridge Group Engineering Firm. 30% of Vancouver school buildings were found to be at high risk and 15% at moderate risk.
(view executive summary)
1997 Auditor General's Report on Earthquake Preparedness
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Provincial Ministry of Education Capital Budgets
(view table)