Baker Beach Apartments

San Francisco, California

Baker Beach Apartments consists of 73 apartment buildings, and were constructed around 1953 as enlisted personnel family housing. These buildings are typically wood-framed structures with open (“tuck-under”) parking provided at ground level. Tuan and Robinson Structural Engineers was retained by the Presidio Trust to initially provide structural consultation such as building condition assessment and initial seismic structural studies. We were also retained to provide consultation for a program of voluntary structural upgrades to adddress typical deficiencies such as lack of lateral force resisting elements, the soft-story condition inherent in tuck-under parking conditions, and unbraced cripple walls at the crawlspaces.