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We are a full-service seismic retrofit company serving the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Since starting the business in 1994, we have inspected and designed retrofits for over 4,000 homes and installed over 1,800 retrofits.

If this website doesn't answer all your seismic retrofit questions, we encourage you to call or email us. We especially encourage you to contact us about any concerns you have regarding the earthquake safety of your own home. We have been trained by the top seismic engineers in the country and the best structural engineers in northern California. These specialists remain our friends, mentors and sources of the most up-to-date seismic retrofit information. If we don't have the answers to your questions, we know someone who does.

As a special favor, we ask you to read the article at the False Security button. This concerns a problem of potentially devastating consequences for San Fransicso Bay Area residents who trust their retrofits to protect their homes. If you are so inclined, we ask you to contact your local building officials regarding the problem discussed in this article.

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Bay Area Retrofit
737 Page St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Office 510-548-1111
Fax 510-704-4408

Howard Cook, General Manager
510-418-1676
bayarearetrofit@aol.com

Jeff Bailey, Operations Manager
510-418-0451
jeffatretrofit@aol.com

This website and the articles within are copyrighted by Howard Cook
updated: November 30, 2009
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