Buildings At Risk Summit Mitigates Earthquake Damage
The third annual Buildings At Risk Earthquake Loss Reduction Summit hosted by the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) and Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) will be held on October 8 and October 15, 2013 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Simpson Strong-Tie is a platinum sponsor of the summit and will provide local support from its Stockton and Riverside, Calif., locations.
The purpose of the Buildings At Risk Summit is to reach out to all stakeholders (building owners and managers, public officials and policy-makers, home and business owners, architects and engineers, building officials, insurance companies and others) to provide awareness of seismic risk and how to mitigate that risk through identifying and strengthening “buildings at risk,” including light-frame weak-story buildings, older residential buildings, non-ductile concrete buildings and URM buildings.