Thor Matteson's second award-winning book, Earthquake Strengthening for Vulnerable Homes, includes over 270 pages and 400 photos, illustrations, and diagrams showing effective and economical methods to strengthen your home or wood-framed building to resist earthquakes. Our firm focuses exclusively on designing systems to strengthen your home or wood-framed apartment building to better resist earthquakes.
We do not design decks, additions, bridges, or schools--only retrofits. We work with experienced contractors, and seek out their opinions and feedback on methods and materials. Our goal is to design the best strengthening system that your budget allows. Our work is broken down into three phases: Initial investigation, design engineering, and construction phase services.
The first step in our work is a field exploration of your building. We spend several hours under your house to determine how the existing structural members are connected and what would be the most efficient strengthening approach.
We do not design decks, additions, bridges, or schools--only retrofits. We work with experienced contractors, and seek out their opinions and feedback on methods and materials. Our goal is to design the best strengthening system that your budget allows. Our work is broken down into three phases: Initial investigation, design engineering, and construction phase services.
The first step in our work is a field exploration of your building. We spend several hours under your house to determine how the existing structural members are connected and what would be the most efficient strengthening approach.
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At last, a comprehensive source of important home strengthening information for everyone involved in earthquake upgrades.
Written in non-technical language, it picks up where everything else you have read about earthquake retrofitting leaves off.
This guide will help carpenters, builders, designers and inspectors understand the construction of wood-framed shear walls.
Written by a former carpenter in terms that carpenters will understand, this 8-1/2 x 11, 100-plus page guide contains over 140 photos and diagrams.
Written in non-technical language, it picks up where everything else you have read about earthquake retrofitting leaves off.
This guide will help carpenters, builders, designers and inspectors understand the construction of wood-framed shear walls.
Written by a former carpenter in terms that carpenters will understand, this 8-1/2 x 11, 100-plus page guide contains over 140 photos and diagrams.
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