The document outlines various building upgrade and renovation projects including installing supports to enhance earthquake safety, adding columns to restore a roof's snow load capacity, creating a solar panel car port for energy and limited parking, providing lockers and showers for bike commuters, making a portable judges bench that can seat multiple people anywhere, remodeling a coffee cafe for students and vendors, renovating a kitchen to be more customer friendly and allow new equipment, protecting and enhancing the look of a skybridge structure, installing window screens to prevent bird collisions, and developing emergency lockdown devices to enhance safety.
1. Building Seismic Upgrade
In the event of an earthquake, occupant safety was enhanced with
the installation of supports on all four sides of the building.