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Be heated and cooled with forced air, that is where you get the dropped ceiling. Also, corridors and public areas. The dwelling units do not have airconditioning . They do not. They have heating but not air conditioning. Do they have outside air . Absolutely, they have windows and they also have a system called zduct, which provides for a share even when the windows are closed. One of the reasons they have the systems, ever since 1974, chapter 12day of the Building Code requires that you have so...

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. And john paxton who is a p...

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 is, 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 someone someone need to verify if you are structural steel frame. Theres a high ...

Chain with a little tiny link in it which melts at a certain temperature. Thats exactly right. This would be a higher temperature. Sprinkler heads are generally 125 to 135 degrees. Or by design it could be even higher. A couple things we see at this cook station that are fire concerns, theres a frier here and if you look at this frier, you will see its separated from the flame so that the oil which is combustible is not next to the open flame. Thats a guard for it because the one head is only fo...

City has to over one of the you biggest things we have is people who are ill maybe theyre on the street from diabetes. Last week, i saw a man who said ive worked for 20 years he hurt his back and now hes addicted to his painkillers and living on the street. I said lets Work Together by weve he got to get you healthy first. And the way we can do that is by using the Health Department services. What can we do for the most vulnerable person. Its not just the medical its creating a relationship with...

Lowest story. You are standing there and someone knocks your knees out and you fall down. Thats what can happen to soft story buildings. I think a lot of us dont pay enough attention to the nonstructural damage. Here we are in this room, nonstructural damage can be to the sealing, so heres a story. In the 1989 earthquake, thats the day the Marriott Hotel opened. It has that little bar at the top. Up at the top of building, it swayed back and forth and the ceiling planes shaved off a sprinkler an...

Couple of other people have run a program how to prepare in your life and home with problems related to an earthquake. Thats not what our discussion is today. Its more of a Global Policy issues. One is proximity to the fault. How certain are Geo Technical engineering that the actual proximity of the fault is in fact going to affect how strong the ground motion is . Does a mile make a difference . It came out in kobe earthquake. I was actually there. The roof came off. It was hard to stand up. I ...

Original 1940s design and next they will replace the 2 damaged metal projecting curved over hangs over the entry and at the art or the stream line and the section of the building, and they will plan to match the original 1940s design and also recreate and install the light fixture as shown in the 1935 and the 1940s photograph. And they will lastly repair and reenstall the historic box as shown in 1940 photograph. At the courtyard, they plan to rebuild the structure as the walls are deter ated an...

The plan for the workers, and telling them that there is identified Historic Resource next door, and to be careful about how they go about their business and second to be no storage or activists adjacent to that building. That Construction Equipment to be careful when they are operating the equipment there. And that there be an architectural ahead of at time. And to establish a establish a base line condition. And it is a Reference Point. And if there are any kinds of damage that occur to that b...

From the Metro Commission and their own funding. The goal of the program is increase Public Transit by commute by providing shared bicycles at centers to make the last part of transit more convenient and attractive than using a car to commute. If this amenity results in modal shifts it should reduce Greenhouse Gas gases in the area. This will enable users to check out a bike share. The embarcadero sidewalk and the surface parking lot across from piers here and the exploratorium and the ferry pla...