Retrofit Laws Aim to Make Quake Vulnerable Buildings Safer

By |2023-07-20T22:29:51+00:00July 11th, 2023|Building Safety, Earthquake Retrofit, Non-Ductile Concrete Buildings, Soft Story Seismic Retrofit, steel moment frame”|

A number of Southern California cities have adopted seismic retrofit requirements that go beyond the earthquake retrofit ordinance passed by Los Angeles in 2015.

These cities are ordering vulnerable “steel moment frame” buildings to be upgraded.

A popular type of construction in which a building’s skeleton is made of steel beams and […]