Howard Cook’s Videos

The following videos were created by Howard Cook, owner of Bay Area Retrofit in California. Howard is a leading authority on the retrofit of homes, having been in the business for twenty years. He was a FEMA earthquake inspector after the Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco area and has been involved in the development of buiding code, retrofit techniques and the training of other contractors including, to a far more indepth level, this one. While the videos were made for, and speak to, the San Francisco Bay area market, they are also extremely relevant to the British Columbia market. Our homes are constructed similarly and the engineering principles behind retrofit design are universal.