KC Custom Builders

10/21/2016

Hundreds of San Francisco residential building owners have yet to comply with the city’s mandated seismic retrofit program and face penalties if they don’t initiate the safety improvements in the next 60 days, according to the Department of Building Inspection. With a Sept. 15 deadline looming, near...

05/07/2015

Building codes can change the way we survive. An interesting article on the recent, devastating earthquake in Nepal.

The Nepalese capital's problem wasn't the earthquake, it was the building codes.

05/07/2015

Learn more about San Francisco's soft story retrofit program through the Department of Building Inspection's website page:

INTRODUCTION

04/16/2015

After Sunday's 6.0 quake in Napa, I realized I knew very little about earthquakes and decided to do some digging. I've read a lot about the natural disaster in the last week and…

03/18/2015

Last Thursday, on the 107th anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake, SF Mayor Ed Lee signed the mandatory soft-story retrofit program into law. SPUR has long advocated for this legislation, which will help make San Francisco more resilient in a major earthquake.