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City convenes Tall Building Safety Strategy Summit; ATC report proposes 16 recommendations
Summary
City officials and engineering experts presented a Tall Building Safety Strategy and an inventory of tall buildings; recommendations address new-building performance, retrofit priorities, inspection/assessment processes and a downtown recovery framework.
San Francisco convened a Tall Building Safety Strategy Summit on June 21, at which local officials, academic experts and technical advisers reviewed an inventory of tall buildings and a 16-point strategy for improving seismic performance, inspection and post-disaster recovery.
Greg Dierlein of the Applied Technology Council outlined an inventory focused on buildings taller than 240 feet and described three cohorts of concern: older non-ductile concrete towers, pre-1994 steel moment-frame…
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