Los Angeles recently passed Ordinance 183893, which requires building owners to retrofit any wood-framed or soft-story buildings built prior to 1978, and other cities in California will likely follow suit. The law is intended to make buildings more structurally sound and safer during earthquakes, and it may require you to seek an apartment building retrofit. […]
Many buildings in Los Angeles have what is called a soft-story structure. The term describes buildings with habitable rooms above a garage, carport, entryway, or lobby. To give your soft story building improved support, you may be affected by the seismic retrofit Los Angeles now requires. New ordinances will hold you to a strict timetable […]
Seismic retrofitting is a process that modifies existing structures to make them more impervious to events such as earthquakes and tremors. If you own an existing tilt-up or non-ductile concrete building in an earthquake-prone area and want to be confident that it will withstand a natural disaster, seismic retrofitting is an excellent strategy. Different techniques […]
Over the past few years, more and more earthquakes are happening around the world. These earthquakes have caused millions of dollars in damage and have injured or killed people in the process. Because of this, researchers have conducted more studies about seismic safety and how to make buildings more structurally sound. Whether these are buildings that already […]