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Hi. I am cory with San Francisco and were doing stay safe and were going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. Were here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and joined by carla, the Deputy Director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why its important to San Francisco. As you know the bay area as 63 chance of having a major earthquake...

Building inspection broke browng session and building San Francisco and today were going to talk about odd or excentric erinteresting building in San Francisco and i have with us a Structural Engineer San Francisco pat and who has probably looked inside many of the buildings here and one of the great resources in San Francisco and thanks for being with us today. You say unusual buildings and one of the first things that comes to peoples mind and thats the one and heres one that is called the Oct...

Pastry chefs. These are storage containers. Allowed by law. Now, we have restaurants who use chemicals on the food. Thats be allowed. We are very careful to be sure they use proper items like this. We have a i usually have my temperature gun. We usually take a temperature, we stir it up and take a surface temperature. It should be fairly close. You want to know what kind of product it is. If its something that needs to be cooled quickly, we like the temperature to come from 140 to about 41 degre...

Kinds of cranes around the city. We have a fixed height crane, like this, and then we have some that are climbing cranes. This is a Free Standing crane, not bolted down. About all of these big concrete waits . 160 pounds of concrete is the ballast week. Did you have to pour a Big Foundation under that . This is a construction method that we get to, we work with the contractor. We get a load from the crane manufacturer, figure out the downward load and the overturn load. We then make sure that th...

Hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who is a Structural Engineer and a guy that has looked at earthquake building upgrades in San Francisco, yeah. Than anybody and he has his earthquake dog harvey. Okay. Thats enough. A...

Its steel and concrete theres a difference between structural steel and rebarb. Its steel columns. Thank you goodness. 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was built i believe in 1920 and i brought my staff here because we want to, as a team, be prepared with our building and the owners who live there. So her question how can someone find out what they should be prepared for . The first thing is to see if the there are original plans for their building should they hire some...

Sponsor had asked about the stainless steel and it does differentiate it from the condition on the building and it is also, set back in under, you know the building and thes set back and so, in terms of that condition, do we want to make it different or exactly the same as indicating that we dont want to do anything false . All right. Mr. Fry . Department staff, and our intent has always been to match the finishes that are the predominant character, and we would suggest to i simplify that. And s...

Offices. There are a number of issues that you have to address in washington, National Security issues that come up. It is generally a series of meetings. What has driven us in the last 10 years is the threat of terrorism. That is why we spend the first hour or two everyday addressing terrorism. People ask about how we manage it. Occasionally say, not very well. There are those who think i should not be micromanaging. Management books will tell you that shyou should be on the balcony and of the ...

I am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. It is in the mission, how are we going to get there . We are not driving. Well what do you suggest . There are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta. Com. Sfmta. Com. It is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. Sitting in front of my computer waiting Transportation Options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. The new sfmta. Com is m...

And, so, what motivated me in the past has always been about making sure that i wasnt the only one that had an Incredible Opportunity to participate in the city, to have a great life in the city. I felt like there were too many of my peers that should have had this same opportunity. And, so, its a big reason why i decided to participate in politics. You mentioned you were the executive director of the africanamerican arts and culture complex. How has that experience as well as the experience of ...