Setting in the steel frame for another Sinai Soft Story Retrofit building in Los Angeles...
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