San Francisco (CrohnSan Francisco has issued new data that exposed 24 city-owned buildings at risk of collapse from an earthquake. More than that is vulnerable to grave damage according to the city’s classifications.
Kron4 reports on where most of the concerns are and what is done to fix them.
Residents have seen damage that could happen in San Francisco after a major earthquake, and many have been done in the past twenty years to the update modification buildings. There is still more work to be done in twenty city -owned buildings, from firefighting stations to homeless shelters.
San Francisco measures the risk of building damage in the seismic risk classifications (ShR). Brian Strong, director of San Francisco Company for flexibility and capital planning, says 24 owned by the city got SHR of four-worse degrees as possible.
“There is a possibility of a collapse, this does not mean that it will happen, but this means that there is the possibility of this, and this is the worst scenario,” Strong said. “This also means that after the earthquake, we will not be able to fix the building.”
In the 4 Shrs list: public health buildings, police stations and eight firefighting stations, including station 7 in Soma.
Captain Jonathan Paxter said the station is one of two who will be used as a major position in the event of an emergency, such as the earthquake.
“This station will actually facilitate the operations of the San Francisco hemisphere, so it is extremely necessary to put these buildings,” said Paxter.
Paxter said that Mayor Daniel Lori has increased the financing of capital improvements in his budget, which would allow the extinguishing stations to be modified in the case of the next major injury.
“Some of the things that we will search for are securing the building for the institution, securing certain walls and ensuring that we have strengthened safe facilities such as gas and electricity,” said Paxter.
Two others were given from the buildings of cities 3, which means that they are unlikely to collapse, but they will still need major repairs after a major earthquake.
One of these buildings is the Justice Hall on Bryant Street, where thousands of people enter every year. According to Strong, there are nine buildings in the process of updating the update – either in the hidden design or under construction.
“We want to be in advance with citizens, with policy makers and with everyone that this is where we are, but we have plans and make progress,” Strong said.
The update modification of the earthquake is not a cheap function. Strong says that when SF General Hospital had a draft update modification in 2012, it costs about $ 887 million to complete it.