Ali Sahabi, GEC

Ali Sahabi

About Ali Sahabi

Ali Sahabi has been a licensed General Engineering Contractor (GEC) since 1993, and is a principal at Optimum Seismic, Inc. He has completed hundreds of seismic retrofitting and adaptive reuse projects for multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial buildings throughout California.
16 July, 2019

Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles Holds Legislative Breakfast With State Treasurer Fiona Ma July 20

By |2019-07-25T17:28:22+00:00July 16th, 2019|Press Release|

Optimum Seismic Chief Operating Officer Ali Sahabi will be among rental housing industry leaders attending a legislative breakfast with California State Treasurer Fiona Ma on July 20. The annual event will be sponsored by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles.

“We are glad to be able to support such events […]

12 July, 2019

Ridgecrest hit with another earthquake today

By |2019-07-12T17:55:10+00:00July 12th, 2019|Related News|

One week after the two major quakes that hit Ridgecrest, a 4.9 earthquake struck this Friday morning. The worst part is that it’s hasn’t just been in Ridgecrest, there was some seismic activity in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, and San Bernardino.

For more info, please read the original […]

12 July, 2019

Washington state hit with an earthquake earlier this morning.

By |2019-07-12T17:52:13+00:00July 12th, 2019|Related News|

On Friday morning Washington state was hit with a 4.6 earthquake in Washington’s Puget Sound region. A few minutes later not far from the quake there was a 3.5 aftershock near Monroe, Washington. More than 6,700 people reported feeling the quake.

For more info, please read the original article […]

10 July, 2019

Why Ridgecrest was spared of a lot more damage

By |2019-07-10T17:44:45+00:00July 10th, 2019|Related News|

After the Ridgecrest earthquakes, structural engineers went to the scene to see the damages, and to their surprise there was not a lot. Why is that? It is because Ridgecrest is not the populated and it is all relatively new construction. According to Ken O’Dell, president of the Structural Engineers […]

10 July, 2019

Turn to Science, Not Social Media, for Answers on Earthquake Stability

By |2019-08-01T23:33:09+00:00July 10th, 2019|AACSC, Earthquake Retrofit, FAQ, Seismic Engineering, Seismic Retrofit|

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

I recently ran across the following question from a Los Angeles woman on Yelp:

Q: Is there a way to know how safe your apartment building is in case of an earthquake?

One respondent stated that if her apartment is […]

7 July, 2019

UCSD at the Epicenter of Research on Seismic Engineering

By |2019-08-01T23:30:15+00:00July 7th, 2019|SDCAA, Seismic Engineering, Seismic Resilience|

-Appeared on San Diego County Apartment Association (SDCAA)

Much of the world’s best research about building strength during earthquakes happens right here in San Diego.

The University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering conducts some of the most noteworthy studies available on the effects of […]

5 July, 2019

Alaska Learned from its Mega-Quake. Will We?

By |2019-08-01T23:31:32+00:00July 5th, 2019|AACSC, earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Retrofit|

-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles  (AAGLA).

It’s been more than six months since a massive 9.2-magnitude quake shook Southeastern Alaska, and while some businesses are still trying to get their lives back to normal the overwhelming majority of communities there seem to have withstood the […]

2 July, 2019

Washington Schools at high risk, if a big earthquake struck

By |2019-07-02T20:15:39+00:00July 2nd, 2019|Related News|

Last week The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent individual assessments of earthquakes risk to administrators for 222 school buildings. Saying that their building is in high risk of collapsing and killing students in an event of a major earthquake.

For more info, please read the original […]

28 June, 2019

Optimum Seismic Presents Quake Seminar to Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles July 16

By |2019-07-25T17:28:42+00:00June 28th, 2019|Press Release|

Los Angeles, California — A free seminar on soft story apartment earthquake retrofits will be held on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, from noon to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the headquarters of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA, www.aagla.org), and sponsored […]