The 181 Fremont Tower, located in downtown San Francisco adjacent to the new Transbay Transit Center, will arguably be the most resilient tall building on the West Coast of the United States when completed in 2017. At that time, it will be the second tallest building in San Francisco (802 feet). The tower was designed to exceed CBC-mandated (California Building Code) earthquake performance objectives for new tall buildings by following a “resilience-based-design” approach. …