Are you looking forward for a new
build or renovation of your house or office building? Then San Francisco Seismic Retrofit Program and soft story ordinance
could be of your great help. Read on, to know about the two in detail:
Seismic Retrofit Programme
The Retrofit Programme seeks to improve the housing
quality by enabling access to better retrofit measures. It is a cost neutral
programme. By far, it has benefited over a thousand of homeowners. The retrofit
programme intends to improve the local air quality and installation of
insulation, while encouraging house owners/occupiers suffering from an illness concerning
damp housing or cold to improve the quality of the house. Each and every
possibility that leads to damage are checked properly and in case any such area
are found proper actions are taken to preserve the structure.
Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance Background
Soft StoryOrdinance San Francisco is a multi-year community-based effort enforced by
Department of Building Inspection in order to ensure the resilience and
safety of the housing stock of San Francisco through the retrofit of old,
multi-family, wood-framed, buildings with a soft-story condition.
This
ordinance applies only to wood-frame buildings that either have three or more
stories over a under floor area / basement or have any portion containing four
or more residential dwelling units extending above grade where the building hasn’t
been seismically strengthened yet.
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