Office Building Retrofit

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• Seismic retrofit of 3-story, 80,000 sf office building
• Owner occupied building with sensitive uses
• Collaborated with owner, design team and contractor to develop a seismic retrofit scheme to limit the impact on the tenants
• Utilized new, state-of-the-art, bucking restrained braced frames (BRBFs) inside the building and steel special moment resisting frames (SMRFs) outside the building