Seismic Isolation

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The New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research pioneered a number of seismic-isolation and energy absorbing devices during the 1970s and 1980s. The most well known of these is the lead-rubber bearing, invented here in Wellington by Dr Bill Robinson, now at Robinson Seismic Ltd.

This bearing is now installed world-wide.

Further development of this and other devices of the future are carried out in Wellington at Robinson Seismic Ltd, Gracefield.

Products manufactured by Robinson Seismic Ltd include:-

• Lead Extrusion dampers

• Lead Rubber Bearings

• Penguin Vibration Dampers (PVD)