Of the 8,268 unreinforced masonry buildings in L.A. the ones considered most unsafe in an earthquake all but 13 have been either retrofited or razed, said Andrew Adelman, general manager of the city’s ...
(MCT) — City officials in Napa had long worried that the grand building on the corner of Second and Brown streets — with its brick walls and giant red-tiled cupolas — could be devastated by a major ...
NAPA — Nearly 30 years after California adopted a law designed to spur the retrofitting of buildings at risk in an earthquake, thousands of Bay Area structures still are not updated, a laggard pace ...
New and innovative retrofitting techniques are now available for restoring existing historic masonry structures. Many of the experts are already saying that it may take a decade or two. I would say, ...
NAPA — For 25 years, Brian Silver has insisted that his downtown historic building, built before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, did not need retrofitting. While surrounding business owners spent ...
How did one property owner’s damaged and unreinforced masonry structures come to shut down a total of six businesses in perfectly strong buildings following the Napa quake? It happened because the ...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- Some of the worst buildings to be in or near during a major earthquake are older structures made of unreinforced masonry. The Inland Empire has hundreds of those older ...
Since Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed the most sweeping earthquake-retrofitting laws in California history last year, the big question has been who will pay for the costly upgrades. Many ...
CINTEC Canada of Nepean, Ontario, designer and manufacturer of the CINTEC Reinforcing Anchor System, offers a blast protection system for existing masonry structures. The system, known as Blastec, a ...
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