Simpson Strong-Tie Team Wins California Preservation Foundation Award
Simpson Strong-Tie, as part of a collaborative reconstruction, seismic retrofitting, and historic restoration project team, has been awarded a 2019 Preservation Design Award for Restoration from the California Preservation Foundation for the restoration of the Napa County Courthouse, which was critically damaged by the South Napa earthquake on April 14, 2014.
Registering 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale, the South Napa earthquake was the strongest to hit the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. In addition to damaging the plaster finishes, HVAC, and finish carpentry, the earthquake caused significant structural damage to the courthouse’s existing unreinforced masonry walls.