Is to look at ways to even if the buildings, we dont go for higher performance of the building per se, what can we do to facilitate through programs, reducing the impeding factor, and the ultimate goal, might not be able to read all the numbers but in the report, being able to reduce those functional recovery times, not changing anything in the building but impeding factors, beyond that is the question of enforcing higher performance standards beyond the basic California Building code forgiven that San Francisco has a lot of Tall Buildings in close proximity that serve important functions both for office and for residential. So a quick kind of run through that, appreciate your attention, i think we will move on now to probably the first panel discussion. Thank you. [applause] ok. Our next panel is a discussion on strengthening building performance. I will be your, the facilitator for this paneling. With us, my first guest is john hooper, who is with the applied technology council, who
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