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Santa Monica's coastal town sits on the Pacific Ocean, about 40 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. The town is best known for its pier, which features an amusement park, arcade and many tasty restaurants. Like most cities and towns in Southern California, it has experienced its share of earthquakes. In 2017, the city launched its own earthquake remodeling plan in Santa Monica with some [...]

If you are a building owner who must comply with the Soft Story refurbishment order, you need to know the latest news! Due to continuous tenant complaints about a reduction in parking stall width, the city required the Soft Story retrofit program to comply with the strictest parking codes. These parking codes no longer allow for Soft Story retrofits to make parking stalls go from [...]

If you own any commercial buildings in Los Angeles, California, then you know that earthquakes are a natural occurrence. In order to keep your tenants or employees safe, you may need a seismic upgrade to your building. These include apartment complexes, resorts, or office buildings. There are a number of companies in Los Angeles, but which one is right for you? Here are the four [...]

Yard drainage refers to the way the soil treats the water. Accumulation of water anywhere on your property can lead to structural problems and mold, damage your plants and become a breeding ground for mosquitoes and bacteria. When you find that water is still standing in the areas of your yard days after rainfall, you are likely to have a drainage problem. Below are 6 [...]

In the last few years, we have witnessed too many earthquakes. The effect of several earthquakes has been devastating; several buildings have been destroyed and thousands of lives have been lost. It is therefore important to take effective preventive measures against this natural hazard. How to Ensure Maximum Safety Hire a structural engineer and perform a test to check whether or not your building is [...]

We're not really used to a lot of rain here in Southern California. In reality, it's a long-running joke that we really don't know how to react on those rare occasions when it's raining. Rain may be a rare and welcome phenomenon here in the desert, but it can also do quite a bit of damage if we're not properly prepared for it. One of [...]

Every year, collapsing buildings, cracking and buckling foundation walls and crumbling and unstable floors impact millions of homeowners in Southern California. Buildings located on unstable soil will settle when the foundation is subject to moisture or poor drainage. A shifting foundation can result in structural damage and a potential decrease in the value of your investment. As a prime drainage contractor in Los Angeles, we're [...]

One of the most earthquake-prone urban areas in the world, Los Angeles is likely to be hit by a major quake in the coming decades. As stressful as it may be, planning for the big one is part of living in Hollywood. According to the United States Geological Survey, there is a 60 per cent likelihood that a magnitude 6.7 or higher earthquake will strike [...]

Los Angeles is no stranger to earthquakes and, like other cities in California, has suffered extensive damage in previous seismic events, which has led to significant advances in earthquake engineering. Some might say that to L.A. It has been the epicenter of seismic code development since the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933. Due to its long history of seismic events and their aftermath, Los Angeles [...]

Seismic Retrofitting is a method of strengthening existing damaged / undamaged old / new structures that are found to be weak in earthquake loads that may occur in the future. Generally, earthquake-prone structures are retrofitted with Steel jacketing, Concrete jacketing, Galvanized steel mesh reinforcement, Inclusion of new support walls / Concrete shear walls, Steel bracing, Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) sheets. Seismic retrofitting is the modification [...]