San Francisco’s Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP)

The Ferry Building was recently approved for the BORP program.

The Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP) is a program developed by the City and County of San Francisco, Department of Building Inspection, with the cooperation of  BOMA San Francisco, the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The program allows San Francisco building owners to pre-certify private post-earthquake inspection of their buildings by qualified engineers and specialty contractors upon DBI acceptance of a written inspection program.

BORP consists of three basic phases: The first is the assessment of the building and preparation of a BORP program, including a building-specific post-earthquake inspection plan; the second phase includes annual update and renewal activities, the maintenance portion of the work; the third phase is the post-disaster implementation of the program.

BOMA San Francisco’s goal is to have all buildings within the membership registered for this unique program.  Increasing the resiliency of your building to an emergency situation, such as an earthquake, is of the utmost importance to any building owner and manager to ensure business continuity.  In a city-wide disaster, there may be a lengthily delay in getting your building back in business as there won’t be enough city engineers to evaluate the scores of buildings that need to be inspected for safe occupation.  BORP will ensure that your building will be inspected quickly via private inspection, and that your tenants can resume operations as soon as it is safely possible.

The Basics:

• 104 buildings city-wide are approved participants of the BORP program.

• 93 of these buildings are downtown high-rises.

• 57 BOMA San Francisco member buildings are approved participants of the BORP program

The Breakdown:

• ~21.2% of all BOMA San Francisco member buildings are approved for BORP.

• ~64.5% of the 93 downtown high-rise buildings in the BORP program are BOMA San Francisco member buildings.

• ~57.7% of the 104 city-wide buildings in the BORP program are BOMA San Francisco member buildings.

Please click here to read more about the BORP program or contact Mr. David Leung at the Department of Building Inspection, (415) 558-6033 or david.leung@sfgov.org.