Building Safety

2 February, 2023

New construction alone won’t stop L.A.’s housing affordability crisis

By |2023-02-08T21:27:08+00:00February 2nd, 2023|AAGLA, Building Safety, Buildings Resilience, housing affordability|

New luxury apartment homes are sprouting up throughout Los Angeles – in the heart of Koreatown, Little Tokyo, in West Hollywood, Glendale, Culver City, even downtown. Amid all the new construction, the need for more affordable housing continues to grow.

From 2010 to 2019, the city lost thousands of homes considered […]

14 April, 2022

Building safety upstaged by ice cream?

By |2022-06-14T17:58:49+00:00April 14th, 2022|AAGLA, Building Safety, Buildings Resilience|

Happy Building Safety Month! This low-profile, international observance for safe and sound structures, rarely gets noticed outside the industry. It’s the unsung understudy to fun causes nearer and dearer to people’s hearts – taking a back seat to ice cream, talking like pirates, even clowns.

But buildings play an ever-present and […]

3 March, 2022

San Diego buildings face ‘blind thrust’ threat

By |2022-06-15T18:46:30+00:00March 3rd, 2022|Building Safety, Buildings Resilience, Earthquake Risk, SDCAA|

The most recent maps prepared by the California Geological Survey reveal that San Diego’s earthquake risk is significantly higher than previously thought.

Recent information reveals  the region’s fault zones are significantly larger and far-reaching than assumed – stretching along the Rose Canyon Fault from La Jolla down through the airport and […]

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