Why This is All Necessary
About Bay Area Retrofit
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and PBS Channel
8 Foolproof Tips on Finding a Good Seismic Retrofit Contractor
How Does a Retrofit Work?
Homeowner’s Guide to Residential Seismic Retrofitting
Seismic Retrofits of Houses Built before 1940
Seismic Retrofits of Houses Built on Flat Lots Built After 1940
Seismic Retrofits of Already Bolted Houses
A General Review of Retrofit Design and Installation Principles
Seismic Retrofits of Houses with Living Area Above a Garage (Soft Story)
Seismic Retrofits for Houses Built on Hillsides
Cripple Wall Retrofits:Most Houses Built before 1940
The Vital Plywood to Mud sill Shear Wall Connection
A General Review of Cripple Wall Retrofit Principles
Cripple Wall to Shear Wall Conversion Process – Step by Step
Plywood Performance is Seismic Retrofitting
Porches and Cripple Wall Retrofits
Framing a Cripple Wall Before a Shear Wall Conversion
How to Retrofit a Short Cripple Where Bolts Won’t Fit
How to Attach the Entire Floor to the Shear Wall
Be Careful About Nail Penetration in the Plywood
Cripple Wall Retrofits and Stepped Foundations
The Dangers of Pressure Treated ACQ Lumber
Building a Shear Wall from Scratch
Cripple Wall Retrofits and Top Plates
Foundation Bolting
What Does a Foundation Bolt Do?
Many Bolted Houses Have Big Problems
Everything You Wanted to Know About Foundation Bolts
What are the Best Washers for Foundation Bolts?
The Problem With Over-sized Bolt Holes
Bolt the House to the Side of the Foundation?
Attaching the Floor to the Shear Wall
What Are Shear Transfer Ties For?
Attaching the Shear Wall to the Floor with Lag Bolts
Keeping Your House Attached to a Hill
My Floor is Damaged: Will That Impact My Retrofit?
Do I Need to Connect the Floor I Walk On to Anything?
What is a Shear Transfer Diaphragm?
Shear Blocking, Just to Be Sure
Soft Story Retrofits
Soft Story Buildings and Houses
The San Francisco Soft Story Mandate
Using Rotation With a Soft Story Retrofit
Special Metal Walls Can Keep Your Garage from Collapsing
Retrofit Building Codes and Permits
How Much Does a Seismic Retrofit Cost?
Bay Area’s Regional Guideline: Standard Plan with Calculations
Government Seismic Retrofit Guidelines
The Los Angeles Retrofit Building Code
Screening Your Seismic Retrofit Contractor
Financial Assistance
Government Money for Your Seismic Retrofit
Get a Berkeley Seismic Retrofit Grant
Engineering
Engineering and the Retrofit Mudsill Connection
Critique of Appendix Chapter A3 of the CEBC
Seismic Retrofit Engineers Answer Essential Questions
Archaic Building Materials: Is Your House Already Earthquake Proof?
Why Do I Need to Know How Much My House Weighs?
The Simpson StrongTie Catalog and Other Published Reports
Tensile Strength of Steel and Wood Continuity Ties
Moisture on Plywood: Its Impact on Shear Walls
The Earthquake Resistance of Drywall
Foundations
Testing of Old Foundations By the Structural Engineer’s Association of Southern California
What If I Need a New Foundation?
Can I Retrofit My House Using Only 3 Foundations
How to Get a Lot of Protection With Minimal Foundation
Retrofitting a House Using the Center Foundation
My Mudsill is Embedded into My Foundation
San Francisco Soft Story Mandate
Soft Story Retrofit Engineers in San Francisco and the Bay Area
The Wrong Soft Story Retrofit Engineer Can Cost You a Bundle
The Dangers of Pressure Treated ACQ Lumber
Technical
Advanced Information for Retrofit Professionals
The Dangers of Pressure Treated ACQ Lumber
Technical Bulletins NER-272 and ESR-1539
The Simpson StrongTie Catalog and Other Published Reports
What Happens to Stucco in Earthquakes
The Performance of Drywall in Earthquakes
The Dangers of Pressure Treated ACQ Lumber
Tests and Reports
The Shear Wall Rosetta Stone: Research Report 154
Shear Wall Blocking in Exterior Siding
Slant Nailed Shear Wall Nailing
Shear Wall Laboratory Tests and Retrofit Applications Found in Research Report 154
When the Retrofit Contractor Screws Up – Sheet Metal Shear Wall Repair
Wood Tensile Strength and Residential Seismic Retrofitting
Does Green Lumber Impact a Retrofit’s Strength?
Construction Details For Contractors
Angle Iron Retrofits – Will They Work?
