Articles Tagged with ''Resilience''

For the first time ever, climate change and resilience have been included in a federal highway bill, which passed unanimously out of committee.

The focus of IBHS outreach in 2019 is calling out details of landscaping, construction materials, and the assembly of decks, roofs, siding, soffits and vents as ignition-point risks when seeded by wind-blown embers. It also is looking at the fire resistance of manufactured lumber, versus natural materials.

With Hurricane Harvey almost two years in the rearview mirror, Houstonians have started to imagine a future city that is resilient to storms and stressors that can be a model for the nation.

The World Bank report says making infrastructure strong, more able to respond to natural disasters and regular stressors saves $4 to every $1 spent.

Help is on the way for structural engineers driving toward improving the efficiency, reliability and resilience of buildings through performance-based wind design.