Salt Lake firm to evaluate schools seismically

PROVO — Provo School District recently selected Salt Lake structural engineering firm Dunn Associates to conduct seismic evaluations of 11 schools in the next year.

A committee of Board of Education members, district staff and professional engineers chose the firm. The study will cost $175,000.

The seismic evaluations will aid the district with building improvement plans.

Last year, Provo voters authorized the district to issue $35 million in bonds, which included money for school seismic evaluations.

The oldest buildings were constructed in the 1930s, before building codes had provisions for seismic safety.