Why it pays to select contractors that comply with professional and occupational standards.
Construction, when done wrong, can be an industry fraught with workplace injury.
On any given day, more than six million people work at some 252,000 construction sites across the nation, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In […]
Earthquakes don’t heed the legislative boundaries that define a city’s limits.
That’s why, many property owners not bound by any safety ordinance are taking action and having their buildings retrofitted anyway – not because of […]
Every building is different, and the approaches to safeguarding a structure against earthquake damage are incredibly diverse.
Naturally, every building owner has specific questions about his or her project: What will you need to do […]
Seismic retrofits affect more than just the buildings they are designed to protect. Depending on the construction process, they have the potential to disrupt quality of life for your tenants.
That’s why the City of […]
The primary purpose of an earthquake retrofit is to make a building safer in the event of an earthquake.
But there are many other important considerations as well – issues that could affect the functionality and operations of a building for both the short- and long-term.
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One of the most important questions an apartment owner can make when deciding to move forward with an earthquake retrofit, is determining the best approach to get the job done.
Most public agencies recommend the “design-bid-build” approach rather than hiring one contractor to do both the engineering study and construction project.
The […]
Anyone who lives in California knows that our state’s calamitous reputation for earthquakes is fueled by the intricate web of volatile fault lines that crisscross our landscape.
The closer you are to the convergence of two tectonic plates, the more likely you are to be impacted by seismic activity. Here in […]
(As published in Apartment Age Magazine) Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety last month hosted the city’s second annual Los Angeles Seismic Retrofit Resource Fair, providing owners of soft-story buildings with access to information on the city’s new mandatory earthquake retrofit law.
City […]
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 […]
