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San Francisco accelerates ‘soft‑story’ seismic study as DBI seeks voluntary retrofits and incentives
Summary
The Building Inspection Commission heard an accelerated plan to study and prioritize seismic retrofits for soft‑story wood‑frame buildings; DBI and consultant ATC will deliver recommendations by January while stakeholders urged incentives, tenant protections and streamlined permitting.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission on July 16 heard officials say the city will accelerate study and planning for seismic retrofits of so‑called soft‑story wood‑frame buildings, a vulnerable housing type identified as a city priority.
Tom Tobin, manager for the Applied Technology Council (ATC) CAPS program, told the commission his team will reweight the contract work to focus on soft‑story buildings, characterize DBI’s database into a small set of reference building types, model vulnerability and design retrofit options and cost estimates, and return recommendations to the mayor by January. “We will look at the database that DBI has developed on these types of buildings, characterize that database in terms of a handful of what we call reference buildings … and then we will have retrofits of those designed,”…
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