Retrofitting an Old Building | Comprehensive Guide to Seismic Retrofit

When a homeowner asks with concern: "Engineer, will our 40-year-old building survive an earthquake?" - this question is actually the starting point of a complex engineering path. After the 2003 Bam earthquake and the 2017 Kermanshah earthquake, we witnessed that many old buildings were highly vulnerable not because of fundamental weaknesses in design, but because of non-compliance with current standards and the gradual deterioration of materials.