Structural Retrofit

STRUCTURAL RETROFITTING is essential to preserving historic structures, but it can present unique challenges. Specializing in historic preservation construction and working closely with structural engineers, Spectra Company identifies potential retrofit options early, with a focus on minimizing impacts to a structure’s historic character.

Spectra’s seismic retrofit methods include steel moment and braced frames, concrete shear walls, shotcrete, underpinning, wood-frame anchors, and shear panels.