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Construction

Apr. 2, 2000

Legislation offered to mitigate seismic safety compliance

Sacramento - A package designed to mitigate the financial and patient care consequences of California's hospital seismic-safety program has been introduced in the Legislature. Approximately 2,600 buildings at California's 473 acute-care hospitals are in need of some type of seismic upgrading.

Sacramento - A package designed to mitigate the financial and patient care consequences of California's hospital seismic-safety program has been introduced in the Legislature. Approximately 2,600 buildings at California's 473 acute-care hospitals are in need of some type of seismic upgrading.
The state's hospitals face about $24 billion in new construction and retrofitting costs by 2030 to comply with SB 1953, seismic-safety legislation passed after the 1994 Northrid...

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