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SPUR:Building It Right the First Time
by Xanthe Asher
- When
- March 5, 2009 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
- Where
- 312 Sutter St. (at Grant), Fifth Floor.SF
- Cost
- free for members & $5.00 for non-members
- More Info
- How do we ensure that our new buildings are being built to support San Francisco's resiliency in the wake of a major disaster? Is the current building code sufficient to achieve our policy goals? Would it be too costly to build them to a higher standard? Joe Maffei, principal with Rutherford and Chekene engineers, and primary author of SPUR's Resilient City Initiative's New Buildings paper, explains how we might improve the seismic performance of new buildings.
