UPGRADE THE BUILDING. UPGRADE THE SAFETY.
We live in earthquake country. No way around it. Thousands of soft story apartment buildings still dot the Los Angeles region. It’s mandatory that those buildings get the necessary upgrade they need. It’s a matter of safety and life saving.
PREPARING YOUR HOME FOR SAFETY
“Soft Story” Retrofitting
Although multifamily property renovations and restorations are JDC’s bread and butter, the company also specializes in retrofitting “soft story” apartment buildings, apartment structures supported by inadequate perimeter walls around open spaces on the ground level (typically for carports) that are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. Many soft story buildings collapsed in San Francisco’s Marina district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Northridge Meadows apartment complex, which killed 16 people when it fell, was among the approximately 200 soft story buildings in Los Angeles to be severely damaged or destroyed in the 1994 Northridge quake.