If you live or work in Beverly Hills and your building was constructed before 1978, it may be in need of a seismic retrofit. According to recently obtained data on 229 soft-story buildings in the city ...

The Burlingame City Council is in favor of a gradual approach to retrofitting soft-story buildings — top-heavy structures with a large, open-floor bottom often designed as carports that are not ...

Reading is a dangerous thing. By reading, you learn new things and it just might be about a hazard you never considered — such as soft-story homes. The details are all in this article: “Flaw in ...

Facing the possibility of a major earthquake over the next few decades, San Jose is requiring older “soft-story” buildings to be seismically retrofitted to avoid the catastrophic damages the region ...

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 ...