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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Some steel buildings built recently have various methods of seismic damping from base isolation to diagonal shock absorbers at upper levels. The city's 911 control center is on the former, for example and a recent large hospital uses the latter. A couple of residential towers also have large water tanks on their roofs with interior baffles that are intended to damp swaying either in high winds or tremors (the building seen in the above photo just behind the crane is one of them).
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Yeah, my first thought when I learned about
tuned mass dampers was, "Wow, that's very clever and very cool".