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A greater than 99 percent chance of surviving. Get to them within the first day, it dropping down to 81 percent. Still not bad. But what happens on the second day . Plummets quite a bit, just under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. W...

Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked an...

Disaster. What happens and how do we fit in . Emergency operation plan, everything is going to go through the mayor. You have the office of emergency services, everything is supposed to come together over on turk street. Thats where the ham radio base station is going to be. Thats where they will have a set up. They will be communicating with all the different Emergency Response districts. Thats where we fit in. Were going to fit into this Emergency Response staging thing into nert staging districts. Each response district has its own little inaudible then the nert groups are broken up into th...

Represents, wouldnt be a dramatic idea . So, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. We wanted this building to be a lead Platinum Building which is very few buildings in San Francisco that achieved this mark. Leadership and Energy Environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. I like to think of it as designed for human and environmental health. Lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. Indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the fi...

Under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. Wood . Yeah, wood framed building. Why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less . It flexes, yeah, its flexible. Whats the danger here . Chimney, yeah, fireplace. Be aware of the...