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Family-run Alpha Structural has faced many tough structural engineering repair jobs over the years. And they've turned some of what they have encountered into choice social media content.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.It's been said that real estate is one of Southern Californians' favorite past times. But one L.A.
"That includes retaining walls collapsing, retaining walls that have already collapsed and went down 200 feet down a mountain, massive landslides, houses that are sinking, houses that are built of wood construction that have pervasive termite damage, houses that have maybe pervasive termite damage that may not be that bad," said Tourjé, who is part of the third generation of Tourjés at the family-owned and run business.
Tourjé said the company books more than 100 appointments a week. Of late, some those calls have taken them to"It's a very sad situation," he said."We're the people that are known to fix the impossible.... and there are some properties in this case, in the PV Peninsula, that are impossible to salvage."
"It just sounds kind of like a boring technical industry," he said. But,"the intersectionality of what we do across environmentalism, Los Angeles culture and history."One of company's latest job, Tourjé said, is to waterproof and perform structural repair to a building in downtown L.A. with something largely unseen and unknown underneath — an abandoned underground subway tunnel network that are miles and miles long.
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