Have you read our recent blog on the requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story Retrofit Program? Our last blog discussed how the City has identified buildings vulnerable to structural failure both during and after an earthquake, and what the timelines and first steps are, when undertaking a Soft Story retrofit project. In this blog, which is the second in the series on [...]
Greater Los Angeles Soft Story retrofitting History Almost eight years ago, the City of Los Angeles passed two landmark Soft Story retrofit ordinances to help ensure that when the next earthquakes hit, residential condo and apartment buildings would be more structurally sound. Such multi-story buildings are called Soft Story structures, because they typically have large open spaces on their flimsy first or second floors, instead [...]
It has been nearly three decades since the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake, and the question on the minds of millions of Los Angelinos is: are we safer today than we were back then? Are the lives of our loved ones secure? Are our homes and commercial businesses safe? The answer to these questions is, unfortunately, more complex than one would hope…* Let’s start with [...]
What are the benefits of Soft Story retrofit in Los Angeles Homeowners and commercial property owners in Los Angeles know that they have an urgent need to retrofit their buildings to safeguard them from the destructive forces of earthquakes. Because so many of our clients who are owners and/or landlords of Los Angeles commercial properties are interested in more information about Soft Story programs, we [...]
What does the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (“LADBS”) do? If you a commercial property owner and a frequent reader of our blogs on the mandatory requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story Retrofit Program, you already know that the City has already identified thousands of buildings that are vulnerable to structural failure both during and after an earthquake, and that [...]
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 [...]
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