Our firm was retained as the prime consultant for the seismic evaluation and retrofit development for the Caltrans - District 7 Office Complex. A previous seismic evaluation conducted on the building did not fully satisfy Caltrans prompting them to request to the Division of the State Architect (DSA) that another independent evaluation be conducted on the building. DSA requested our participation as the independent to develop an economical rehabilitation scheme to enhance life safety recognizing a planning horizon of four to five years. This required our firm to identify the most important seismic deficiencies and focus the rehabilitation efforts to mitigate the most pressing problems in a damage survey report for submission to FEMA/OES. While there were other seismic deficiencies in the buildings, the project budget required that the project objectives be closely observed -- project objectives which we met.