CoreFirst: Earthquake Protection & Seismic Upgrade System https://corefirst-seismic-upgrade-system.com Earthquake Protection & Seismic Upgrade Fri, 01 May 2015 20:27:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 CoreFirst in Washington: Trip One https://corefirst-seismic-upgrade-system.com/2013/08/05/corefirst-in-washington-trip-one/ Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:00:08 +0000 http://corefirst-seismic-upgrade-system.com/staging/?p=177 CoreFirst principals Ben Kaiser and Paul Conway recently traveled to Washington D.C., accompanied by lobbyist Lee Weingart of LNE Group (Cleveland, Ohio). The group engaged Members of Congress to provide an introduction to the CoreFirst technology, its application, and benefits to be realized in communities along the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Kaiser and Conway met with the following offices: Sen. Wyden, Sen. Merkley, Rep. Schrader, Rep. Bonamici and Rep. Blumenauer of Oregon; and Sen. Cantwell and Rep. Smith of Washington. Staff members acknowledged the value CoreFirst could bring to their communities and agreed to help connect the group with federal agencies responsible for implementing natural disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. January has been slated for the next trip to DC to meet with FEMA and Homeland Security to discuss potential opportunities for demonstration projects.

While in the Capital, the group also met with the American Red Cross to discuss how this new technology fits into hazard mitigation plans, in general, and earthquake preparedness, in particular. The Red Cross intends to the review the technology internally in the scientific review committee- where advancements such as that being proposed by CoreFirst can begin to be evaluated and potentially aligned with current safety protocols (drop-cover-hold on) and future protocols.

Going forward, CoreFirst and LNE Group will continue to advocate for implementing the CoreFirst safety protocol: Get up and go to our cartridges or out of the building when an alarm sounds indicating an impending earthquake. CoreFirst’s cartridge safe zones will help mitigate damage to critical buildings in one of the nation’s most at-risk regions.

]]> CoreFirst in Washington: Trip Two https://corefirst-seismic-upgrade-system.com/2013/08/05/corefirst-in-washington-trip-two/ Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:00:07 +0000 http://corefirst-seismic-upgrade-system.com/staging/?p=175 Our first meeting with Representative Thompson’s (CA-05) staffer, Jesse Halladay, went well. He expressed interest not only in the technology of CoreFirst, but also the potential for a public-private partnership (i.e. bond concept for sanctuary financing). Mr. Halladay suggested we approach Wired, Inc. and Fast Company to get our idea out to a slightly different audience with people who would be interested in our idea. Staffers Devin Rhinerson from Senator Feinstein’s office and Denise Braemer from Senator Boxer’s office will assist us in researching legislative initiatives regarding earthquake mitigation, and being from California, they expressed interest in being kept abreast of our approach to seismic upgrades and progress on implementation. The most important meeting of the trip was with Steven McCabe, Kevin Wong and Jay Harris of the National Earthquake Hazard Research Program (NEHRP) a branch of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). They asked for the engineering data collected by our engineering firm, KPFF, and encouraged us to make the CoreFirst approach a part of the national conversation on earthquake hazard mitigation.

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