California intends to have its retrofit proposals adopted into building codes that could boost building resiliency nationwide.
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is set to publish a document incorporating the latest risk modeling for retrofitting the most vulnerable types of structures to gird them against quake damage.
“We are creating this document as a pre-standard,” said Janiele Maffei, chief mitigation officer for CEA. “It is written in building-code language with the intent…