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Commission approves technical edits to soft-story bulletin and replaces 1973 benchmark date in SFBC with ASCE 41-based list
Summary
The commission unanimously approved edits to Administrative Bulletin 107 clarifying diaphragm evaluation and shear-wall connections for soft-story retrofits and agreed to a code change that replaces the single date 05/21/1973 with an itemized list of benchmark adoption years aligned to ASCE 41.
The Building Inspection Commission unanimously approved two related items Dec. 16: technical edits to Administrative Bulletin (AB) 107 for the soft-story retrofit program and a proposed code change to replace a single historical date in the San Francisco Building Code with an itemized list of benchmark adoption years.
Kirk Means (DBI Technical Services, SEG 1832) introduced language that clarifies how engineers and plan checkers should account for the attachment of shear…
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