Having your apartment building retrofitted to withstand an earthquake can seem like a major undertaking.
But surprisingly, it’s not always the cost of construction that has apartment owners concerned. Quite often, it’s the Tenant Habitability Plan required by the City of Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department that worries people […]
There is no local ordinance requiring seismic retrofits of buildings, but many are having their soft-story apartments stabilized anyway, for safety’s sake.
Earthquakes don’t heed the jurisdictional boundaries that define a city’s limits. So, when the City of Los Angeles this year started rolling out the nation’s most sweeping seismic regulations […]
There’s a lot of information out there right now – booth good and bad – regarding the City of L.A.’s new earthquake retrofit requirements for wood-frame, soft-story apartment buildings.
City officials have reported an almost alarming number of business license applications from new start-up retrofit companies, and with them, […]
Every building is different, and the approaches to safeguarding a structure against earthquake damage remain as diverse as the 13,000 soft-story apartment complexes needing retrofits in the city of L.A.
In our public exchanges at community workshops, professional expos […]
The roll-out of the City of Los Angeles’ new earthquake retrofit ordinance has prompted the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles to schedule a series of community seminars designed to help inform building owners about the law, the time frame to get things done, and the basic principles behind retrofit […]
Ever since the first notifications were sent out by the City of L.A., property owners have been contacting us seeking answers to various questions regarding the earthquake retrofit process.
The most frequently asked question has been, “Where do I start?”
A couple of owners shared with us their frustration over contradictory information […]
L.A.’s new law requiring the retrofit of pre-1978 wood-frame soft-story buildings and non-ductile concrete buildings is gaining momentum.
Many fellow AAGLA members have already taken action, knowing that […]
Optimum Seismic informed Los Angeles area apartment owners today about the City of Los Angeles’ new earthquake retrofit mandate and how it impacts soft-story structures such as apartments and office buildings.
The presentation took place at the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ annual Multi-Family Expo held at the Shrine Auditorium & […]
Last month marked the five-year anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan, causing more than 18,000 deaths, $300 billion in damage and a devastating tsunami that set off the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
Coastal communities were flattened – more than 400,000 buildings […]
Optimum Seismic has been named the Preferred Supplier of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles for earthquake retrofit engineering and construction, officials announced today.
The designation distinguishes Optimum Seismic as a trusted leader in the industry. The Optimum Seismic team has 30 years of experience in building and structural retrofits, […]
