Earthquake Awareness Week begins by thinking the unthinkable. Will there be a gas leak? Will these walls collapse? The city of San Francisco is taking steps to catalogue some of its concrete buildings, while PG&E is previewing its real-time monitoring measures in preparation for “the big one.” 

On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced an executive directive to kick start the city’s Concrete Building Safety Program. It follows the release of recommendations generated by the program’s year-long engagement with stakeholders. Recommendations addressed financing, temporary tenant relocation, ways to streamline the building process, and ways to communicate with building owners and tenants.  

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.