2 November

How to Prepare Your Home Before an Earthquake Hits

2024-11-15T18:24:12-08:00

Earthquakes are unpredictable natural disasters capable of causing significant destruction. While you can’t prevent an earthquake, you can take proactive steps to protect your home and family. From planning escape routes to reinforcing your home’s structure, preparing in advance can help minimize injuries and damage when disaster strikes. How to Plan for an Earthquake Preparation begins with a clear plan for your family. Discuss safety [...]

How to Prepare Your Home Before an Earthquake Hits2024-11-15T18:24:12-08:00
22 October

Commercial Earthquake Retrofitting Protects Buildings & Saves Lives

2024-11-29T12:18:56-08:00

Living in earthquake-prone areas comes with unique challenges, especially for commercial property owners. Structural damage, foundation issues, and maintenance are part of daily life in regions like California, where seismic activity is a constant concern. Weak spots in buildings—particularly older ones—pose serious risks, but the good news is that earthquake retrofitting can drastically improve a structure’s resilience and protect lives. Why Is Earthquake Retrofitting Important? [...]

Commercial Earthquake Retrofitting Protects Buildings & Saves Lives2024-11-29T12:18:56-08:00
22 July

The Importance of Seismic Retrofitting

2019-06-24T11:47:10-07:00

If you live in an Earthquake prone area, then your property is in need of earthquake retrofitting.  With the correct seismic retrofitting solution, the total loss of your property and valuables can be minimized with a proactive approach. A basic definition of a seismic retrofitting is the modification of an existing structure to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion or soil failure [...]

The Importance of Seismic Retrofitting2019-06-24T11:47:10-07:00
1 July

How Wall Reinforcement With Earthquake Retrofitting Critically Reduces Risk

2024-11-29T12:56:07-08:00

Seismic retrofitting of vulnerable structures is crucial in earthquake prone regions. These forms of modifications in a building could protect the lives and assets of the occupants and the continuity of their livelihood. It is a common observation that communities that have retrofitted structures recover far more easily and quickly from earthquakes. Earthquake retrofitting has turned into a necessity in places where natural calamities, like [...]

How Wall Reinforcement With Earthquake Retrofitting Critically Reduces Risk2024-11-29T12:56:07-08:00
10 June

The Importance of Earthquake Retrofitting And The Methods of its Implementation

2024-11-29T12:56:47-08:00

Foundation Repair specialists use their technical expertise to make a building damage proof in the event an earthquake strikes. Forces of Nature may challenge the strength of a building without any warning. It’s best to construct the structure to defend against natural calamities or adverse climatic conditions. Whether it’s a soil failure or seismic activity, seismic retrofitting enables a building to stand firmly when the [...]

The Importance of Earthquake Retrofitting And The Methods of its Implementation2024-11-29T12:56:47-08:00
29 May

How to Secure Your House Against a Natural Calamity With Earthquake Retrofitting

2024-11-29T12:58:58-08:00

Unforeseen hazards or natural changes could lead to sudden or gradual degeneration of your home, which would mean considerable expenses for you to restore the house back to its stable condition. Construction and repair companies have come up with a number of permanent solutions to deal with the damages from soil erosion, expansion-contraction of soil or a seismic attack. Residential or commercial foundation repair methods [...]

How to Secure Your House Against a Natural Calamity With Earthquake Retrofitting2024-11-29T12:58:58-08:00
20 May

Soft Story Retrofit: Frequently Asked Questions

2024-11-29T12:59:33-08:00

In this post, you’ll find the top questions we frequently get from our new clients about the Soft Story Retrofit Program. What is a Soft Story building? It’s a structure with a weaker first level. This type of building is useless to carry the weight of the floors above during particularly strong seismic shifts, or as we commonly call them, earthquakes. The first story generally [...]

Soft Story Retrofit: Frequently Asked Questions2024-11-29T12:59:33-08:00
13 May

Soft Story Retrofit Defined

2024-11-29T13:00:27-08:00

Contrary to what many people believe, a Soft Story retrofit job is more specific than a general seismic risk assessment. The retrofit evaluation addresses a floor of a building that’s considerably weaker than the other floors. What is “Soft Story”? The term refers to one story of a building which is particularly more flexible or fragile in lateral load resistance than the foundation below it [...]

Soft Story Retrofit Defined2024-11-29T13:00:27-08:00
6 May

Soft Story Retrofit: What The Property Owners Need to Know

2024-11-29T13:01:02-08:00

Property owners in Los Angeles and several other tiers 1 and 2 municipalities are often confused about the process involved in Soft Story retrofit, also commonly referred to as seismic retrofit. Let us break it down for you. In areas where seismic activity is a concern, a few types of construction are more high-risk than others. Buildings that are “Soft Story” must fortify in order [...]

Soft Story Retrofit: What The Property Owners Need to Know2024-11-29T13:01:02-08:00
1 May

5 Reasons Why You Need Soft Story Retrofitting is Crucial

2024-11-29T13:01:51-08:00

Soft Story buildings are prone to earthquakes and could result in substantial loss of lives, profits, and investments. Therefore, Soft Story retrofitting is crucial. In case of strong sideways motion during an earthquake, the weak supports in the “soft” levels could easily collapse. This can lead the upper stories to fall onto the lower ones. In 1994, the same kind of collapse was induced by [...]

5 Reasons Why You Need Soft Story Retrofitting is Crucial2024-11-29T13:01:51-08:00
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