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Builder Solves Home Earthquake Hazards

Haiti, Chile, China, Japan, Northern California... Could a major city in California or somewhere else in the United States be next? Each of these locations had a major earthquake over the last year. With the rise in fatalities, severe injuries and economic devastation associated with major earthquakes, especially when it comes to housing and shelter the need for a cost effective, and an easy to apply construction technique to limit the risks of earthquakes has never been greater.

Bernard Jacovitz, a South Florida-based inventor, custom home builder and home inspector with over 50 years experience and dual degrees in architectural and industrial design has designed a completely new approach for home construction framing that will minimize and virtually eliminate the risks to the home associated with major earthquakes. Jacovitz, who is now 92 years of age, came up with his recent “patent pending” design shortly after the devastating earthquake in Haiti that resulted in an estimated 230,000 deaths, 1,000,000 homeless and near full devastation of the country’s capital. He immediately recognized the need and focused all his efforts to come up with a building technique that would prevent damage to standing single and two-story homes during an earthquake.

Highly experienced in home construction techniques both technical and practical, Jacovitz designed a completely different method for framing homes. His patent pending design, owned by Earthquake Resistant Building Construction Inc., was specifically designed to avoid any increase in the standard cost of home construction. The technique offers builders a completely new framing method that allows for great flexibility in a home’s frame while avoiding any subsequent reduction in the strength of the frame and its foundation. In fact, Jacovitz’s technique should result in both greater flexibility and increased strength to a home if used according to his design specifications. The patent pending construction technique relies on the use of specialized round steel galvanized corrugated tubing as a replacement for standard wood or concrete block framing.

The new construction technique will revolutionize home construction and will benefit both developed and developing nations when building single family homes.

For more information on this patent pending building technique or to schedule an interview with the inventor, Bernard Jacovitz, contact Richard Jacovitz at 212-988-5497 or via email: richardonecare@gmail.com.

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