Ali Sahabi, GEC

About Ali Sahabi

Recently appointed to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Transition Team, Ali Sahabi, previously received the California Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for taking a sustainable approach toward community development and environmental restoration in the 543-acre Dos Lagos mixed-use development in Corona, CA. A licensed General Engineering Contractor (GEC), Sahabi is an expert in building resilience and sustainability. He is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Optimum Seismic, Inc., which has completed more than 3,500 structural retrofit and adaptive reuse projects for multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial buildings throughout California. Contact Optimum Seismic at 323 978-7664 or visit optimumseismic.com to learn more about your adaptive reuse options for your building.
3 April, 2019

3.5 magnitude earthquake, wakes up Orange County

By |2019-04-03T19:32:27+00:00April 3rd, 2019|Related News|

Wednesday morning Anaheim Hills was awakened by a 3.5 earthquake. The epicenter was close to the freeway interchange between highways 91 and 241. People reported the light shaking across social media.

For more info, please read the original article by LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-35-quake-strikes-near-esperanza-calif-xvhj-story.html

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1 April, 2019

California’s hospitals are scrambling to retrofit their buildings

By |2019-04-01T18:36:21+00:00April 1st, 2019|Related News|

By 2020, 418 hospitals need to meet seismic safety standards in California. This will cost tens of billion dollars and could jeopardize healthcare access, according to a newly released study. The California Hospital Association funded the Rand Corp. report.

For more info, please read the original article by SACBee.com […]

29 March, 2019

West Hollywood exploring options to reduce cost to landlords of earthquake retrofit

By |2019-03-29T17:47:26+00:00March 29th, 2019|Related News|

The city of West Hollywood is feeling the heat, they are exploring multiple options for reducing the cost of landlords for retrofitting their apartment buildings. The city is planning on applying for federal grants, reducing the fees that the city charges, and changing the formula that owners of rent-stabilized buildings […]

29 March, 2019

Anchorage Schools in need of major repairs after earthquake on Nov.30

By |2019-03-29T17:43:55+00:00March 29th, 2019|Related News|

According to the engineering reports the Anchorage School District released the damaged Gruening Middle School and Eagle River Elementary is extensive. The reports were prepared by Anchorage firm BDS Architects, it explained in detailed the cost of repair and what must be fixed in order to reopen.

For more […]

27 March, 2019

Earthquake Alert Test, Launched in Oakland Today

By |2019-03-27T20:57:55+00:00March 27th, 2019|Related News|

Wednesday morning thousands of cell phones buzzed as an urgent message about a “TEST of the CA Earthquake Warning System. No action required. THIS IS A TEST.” At 11 a.m. the first residential deployment if the states earthquake warning system went out to phones in a 60-block zone of Oakland.

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26 March, 2019

Major Earthquake Rocked California’s Inyo County Killing 27 People On March 26, 1872

By |2019-03-26T03:51:51+00:00March 26th, 2019|earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Retrofits, Earthquake Safety, Seismic Retrofit|

Nearly 150 years ago, an earthquake estimated at 7.8 magnitude struck California’s Inyo County in the Owens Valley killing 27 people in 1872.

The quake struck at 2:30 a.m. while most people in the sparcely populated area were sleeping. […]

22 March, 2019

New discoveries about the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand

By |2019-03-22T21:41:59+00:00March 22nd, 2019|Related News|

The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand caused damaged. A group if LMU researches have inspected its mechanisms revealing surprising insights. “Looking at the pattern of surface faults affected by the quake, one finds large gaps of more than 15 km in between them. Up to now, analyses of seismic […]

20 March, 2019

What Can Southern California Learn from the Anchorage Earthquake?

By |2019-03-20T19:50:24+00:00March 20th, 2019|AACSC, earthquake preparedness, Earthquakes|

-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).

“Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday,” a headline in the Anchorage Daily News read just days after the Nov. 30 2018 earthquake shook the region with a 7.0-magnitude force.

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