What does the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (“LADBS”) do? To Reach the City of Los Angeles Building and Safety Department (LADBS) Directly - Dial 311 Call 3-1-1 (within the City of Los Angeles) Callers from outside Los Angeles can call (213) 473-3231. If you a commercial property owner and a frequent reader of our blogs on the mandatory requirements of the City [...]
What are a Soft Story retrofit project’s lead & asbestos testing, structural observations, and cost recovery? In the previous blog in our series on Soft Story retrofitting, we discussed how the owner/landlord of a Soft Story building hires a structural and/or soil engineer and a construction firm to carry out a Soft Story Retrofitting project. In another blog in the series, we also discussed the required [...]
In previous blogs we discussed the mandatory requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story Retrofit Program, as well as the requirements of the Tenant Habitability Program (“THP”), which requires the owner and/or landlord of a Soft Story building to mitigate the impact of retrofitting activities on the property’s tenants. We also explained how to hire structural and soil engineers, as well as a [...]
In our previous blogs we discussed the mandatory requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story Retrofit Program, as well as the Tenant Habitability Program (“THP”), which requires the owner and/or landlord of a Soft Story building to mitigate the impact of retrofitting activities on the property’s tenants. In this new blog, we explain how the owner and/or landlord of a Soft Story building [...]
What does it mean to retrofit a Soft Story building If you are an owner or manager of a Los Angeles based commercial property, you may have already heard of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (“LADBS”) mandatory Soft Story Retrofitting Program and how Los Angeles commercial property owners can prepare for an earthquake. In brief, the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story [...]
How can you tell if you have foundation issues If you have been asking yourself, how can I tell if my foundation is in trouble? Well, the answer is, it’s not always easy to tell! The first thing that you can do is walk around your house and inspect your floors, your walls, and your ceiling and ask yourself the following questions: Is my floor [...]
Is it dangerous to live in a house with a bad foundation Many of our clients who are homeowners in the Greater Los Angeles region often ask us, is living with a damaged home foundation dangerous? The answer is that while minor foundation damage, like small cracks, may not be an immediate health and safety hazard, more major damage such as large cracks, or a [...]
Homes sit on top of foundations! The concept of building a home on top of a foundation has not changed in 100 or more years. In fact, most homes in Los Angeles have been built on foundations whose job it is to keep the home safe from harm when a natural disaster hits, for example a flood, landslide, or earthquake. Modern foundations are made out [...]
Experts define “The Big One” as an earthquake that has at least a category 7.8 magnitude strength, which occurs on the southern side of the San Andreas Fault. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Los Angeles has a 31% chance of experiencing “The Big One” in the next 30 years, and the degree to which such a large quake will be catastrophic, cannot be understated. It [...]
Why is the Los Angeles area so prone to earthquakes? One of our clients recently asked us, why is the Los Angeles area so prone to earthquakes? Our client read our previous blogs, which described how our recent 4.2-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks was a stark reminder of just how dangerous our Los Angeles “neighborhood” really is! The potential damage from earthquakes has increased because [...]
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