SF News Golden Gate Bridge Finally Getting Long-Overdue Earthquake Seismic Retrofit The unsettling truth is that the Golden Gate Bridge is the only bridge in California that has not been seismically retrofitted, but officials are finally starting that process, which is likely to take years and go wildly over budget.
SF News SF Supervisors Call For Hearings Into Gas Line Dangers With Soft-Story Retrofit Projects Citywide Some building inspectors have reportedly been sounding alarm bells for years about an issue that is likely not familiar to most San Franciscans, but one that could become the central oversight blamed in a future disaster.
SF News Many Bay Area Hospitals at Risk of Earthquake Collapse, 12 Years Past Retrofit Deadline More than 40 California hospitals are well past their seismic compliance deadline, and a group of Bay Area hospitals are at significant risk of collapsing in an earthquake.
SF News Enforcement 'Nightmare' Looming As 1,500 SF Buildings Still Not Seismically Retrofitted Maybe you felt a little safer with yesterday's news that the sinking Millennium Tower could withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. But perhaps the more relevant question is ‘Can the building I live