I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake. Soft-story ...
This blog post was co-authored by NBBJ Principal Andrzej Czech and Associate Sandra Lozano, and KPFF Principal Mark Hershberg and Associate Maikol Del Carpio. Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated ...
Performing seismic retrofitting on a skyscraper bought by Los Angeles County for housing county departments eight months ago at a bargain price may cost nearly double what the county paid for the ...