Los Angeles Soft Story Retrofit Blog

In fact luck has nothing to do with it. It's our team of soft story retrofit experts working together like a Swiss watch that gets us the results our clients love. With decades of experience in soft story retrofit projects we know the drill. There's not much we haven't seen before. We know what to do, when to do it and how to do it to keep the soft story project on track and the neighborhood happy. Keeping your tenets and neighbors is as important to us as it is to you. It's

Behind every successful soft story retrofit project, is our team of passionate soft story retrofit employees. Our employees are the back bone and engine of Sinai Soft Story Retrofit, it's because of them that every project is finished on time, on budget and built right. Does not matter if they are in the office or in the field they are in constant communication with each other on every soft story project. It's this kind of team work that keeps every soft story project moving

The reason certain Los Angeles buildings are called soft story, are because the support they have is, well, soft. This is because the soft story vertical support is not tied together so they stay together when the ground starts to move. So in the case of an earthquake, all the soft story buildings vertical support starts moving in different directions tearing the building apart, and the building may collapse. What we do with to remedy this is install a steel frame into your s

When you start soft story retrofit construction it's a process that, when done properly results in minimal headaches. The first thing you have to do is get your engineering organized. What kind of soft story project is your building (it's not one size fits all). Los Angeles soft story buildings are all different and one solution will not work for all of them. If someone tells you other wise, run for the hills. Next, you need to get the proper soft story retrofit permits from

Sinai is getting down to the home stretch on this Los Angeles soft story project. All the steel bracing is in place and we're getting ready to pour. This building will be as safe as they come once the soft story retrofit concrete is poured. Look forward to sharing more... #bestsoftstoryretrofit