When Does an Aging Building Need a Structural Safety Evaluation? Red Flags for Los Angeles Property Owners
Los Angeles has one of the most diverse and aging building stocks of any city in the country. Mid-century apartment buildings, pre-war commercial structures, industrial warehouses converted to creative offices, and masonry buildings that predate modern seismic codes all coexist across the city’s neighborhoods. For owners of these buildings, the question isn’t whether the building […]
Soft-Story Seismic Retrofits for Residential Structures
On 17 January 1994, a powerful and disastrous 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angles. Historically known as the Northridge Earthquake, the devastating occurrence brought the expert’s attention to the most fundamental flaws in building construction. Most people had on their mind was; why did an intricate buckle when a plethora of different buildings continued to […]