{"id":24387,"date":"2016-02-03T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/president-signs-executive-order-demanding-seismic-safety\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:07:25","slug":"president-signs-executive-order-demanding-seismic-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/president-signs-executive-order-demanding-seismic-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"President signs executive order demanding seismic safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to use earthquake-resistant designs when remodeling an existing building or building a new one.<\/p>\n

The order applies only to construction projects undertaken by a federal agency, not private citizens.<\/p>\n

The text of the order requires federal agencies to comply with \u201cearthquake-resistant design provisions of the International Building Code or the International Residential Code.\u201d In leased space, federal agencies are to take what steps they can to adopt the \u201cStandards of Seismic Safety for Existing Federally Owned and Leased Buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to use earthquake-resistant designs when remodeling an existing building or building a new one. The order applies only to construction projects undertaken by a federal agency, not private citizens. The text of the order requires federal agencies to comply with \u201cearthquake-resistant design provisions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24387"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}