Seismic Retrofit

Labib Funk + Associates has over a century of combined personnel experience with Renovations and Retrofits of existing buildings, including evaluations of various levels of complexity to comply with lender, institutional and municipal requirements, renovations ranging the full gamut of intervention, as well as comprehensive seismic retrofit and upgrades. LFA Principals, David Funk, was a contributing member to the Design Guide for the Los Angeles Non-Ductile Concrete and Soft Story Retrofit Ordinances. The firm has designed and constructed hundreds of successful retrofit projects in the Southern California area, including Non-Ductile Concrete and Soft Story Retrofits as required by local ordinances.

LFA and its Principals have extensive experience in complex seismic retrofit of buildings where it has employed various state-of-the-art technologies such as base isolation, passive energy dissipation systems (viscous dampers), and fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) on private and public projects including those with high value contents, hospitals, federal buildings, housing office, military, and General Services Administration occupancies. Many of these projects utilized Performance Based Earthquake Engineering employing non-linear pushover and non-linear response history analyses. Such projects require detailed knowledge of state-of-the-art documents including UC Seismic Safety Policy Guidelines, GSA Progressive Collapse Guidelines, ASCE 7-10, ASCE 31, ASCE 41, ATC-58, ICCSC RP8 and other NIST documents.