Bay Area Retrofit’s Qualifications
- Vice Chair of a national seismic retrofit building code committee
- Co-author of Standard Plan A used by the Brace And Bolt Program as well as building departments all over the Bay Area.
- Mayoral Appointee to the Berkeley Disaster Commission as a seismic retrofit expert
- Course Instructor: Principles and Practice of Earthquake Retrofitting 2014 presented by the Association of Bay Area Governments.
- Author of article “Seismic Retrofit for Cripple Walls”, The Journal of Light Construction. April 2006.
- Featured expert “The Hayward Fault. Predictable Peril.” KQED, Channel 9.
- Contributing Contractor “California Works to Prepare for the Big One”, PBS News Hour. This is a compilation of both the “The Hayward Fault. Predictable Peril” and the NewsHour documentaries.
- Featured Expert in the “S.F. Homeowners Need To Be Ready” in the S.F. Chronicle
- Source for this article in the New York Times
- Guest Lecturer “Retrofit Principles and Practice for the Home Inspection Industry” Sponsored by the Golden Gate Chapter of the American Society of Home Inspectors.
- Keynote speaker “The Preservation of Historical Wood-Framed Buildings” Sponsored by The City of Victoria Heritage Foundation in British Columbia.
- Guest Lecturer: “Retrofit Principles and Practice for the Canadian Home Inspection Industry,” sponsored by the Canadian Association of Home and Property Inspectors.
- Primary source for an article in the The Mercury News on Soft Story Retrofitting.
- Featured contractor in “The Danger Beneath” in the East Bay Express
- Residential Damage Inspector, FEMA. 1989-1993.
