On Oct 17, National Shakeout Day and the 30th Anniversary of Loma Prieta, S.A.M.E. (Society of American Military Engineers) held a Luncheon at the Oakland Federal Building and asked David Renard, Zenith Engineers’ VP of Sales & Partnerships, to moderate a panel that included Senthil Puliyadi, PE, President and Chief Technical Officer of Zenith Engineers, Alain Placido, SE, Building Plan Check for the City of Oakland, Forrest M. Lanning, PE, CPEng, Building Sciences for FEMA, and Rob Altman II from URETEK USA. We gathered to discuss what the Bay Area is doing to combat our seismic vulnerability in our cities, public policies that are in effect, and the mandatory Soft-Story Seismic Retrofit Ordinance that is rolling out throughout California.

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