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Resilience 2021: The Hidden Costs of Environmental Savings from Remote Work
Feb 24, 2025 | 4:39 AM – 4:39 AM ET
Our expert panel examines the hidden costs of remote work during a global lockdown. When COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, it was thought that carbon emissions would be reduced. We are now finding that is not the case.
2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions
The 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures (NEHRP Provisions) marks the 10th edition of this landmark publication since the creation of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) in 1979. Similar to earlier editions, the 2020 NEHRP Provisions introduces major recommended changes and advancements to the national standards and model building codes. The 2020 NEHRP Provisions is expected to be adopted by the professional design standard ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures.
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Designing for a Resilient America: A Stakeholder Summit on High Performance Resilient Buildings and Related Infrastructure
Given the gravity of manmade and natural hazard events of the last decade, designing buildings that not only offer resistance, but continue to function after a catastrophic event are significant challenges to government and the building industry. The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) has recommended better understanding of the role of design and construction in infrastructure resilience.
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Dialogue on National Resilience held at the National Institute of Building Sciences
Resiliency has become a growing concern in the national psyche. President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force’s Rebuilding Strategy and other high-profile documents call for the implementation of measures to improve resiliency. However, assigning who is responsible for implementing such resilience strategies is not clear-cut. Multiple agencies at multiple levels of government, along with the private sector and individual citizens, bear responsibility. Recognizing and aligning the diverse parties involved is a necessary step to achieving resilience.
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Developing Pre-Disaster Resilience Based on Public and Private Incentivization
This white paper, released by the Institute’s Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC) and Council on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (CFIRE) in October 2015, promotes the use of private and public incentives to achieve resilience in U.S. communities.
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The National Institute of Building Sciences recently hosted a webinar to discuss the costs of the remote work world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News reports say Hurricane Dorian is expected to be a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds and could land in Florida as early as this evening.
If this happens, Dorian would be the strongest hurricane to strike the east coast of Florida in nearly three decades. The last storm of this caliber was Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season was the third consecutive season with above-average storms. These storms caused more than $50 billion in damages.
The situation in the Amazon has many feeling helpless.
Fortunately, there are ways you can help aid in the protection of the rainforest. And even more ways outlined by Public Radio International.
When it comes to protecting your home against flood, Mitigation Saves homeowners time and money.
This was the crux of a recent panel presentation that I participated in, during the Strengthening Coastal Counties Resilience Workshop in South Padre Island, Texas. The workshop was arranged by the National Association of Counties (NACo), with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as part of a project to help counties think through how to improve resilience.
Why does synergy matter in disaster recovery, and who needs to be involved?
A panel recently addressed this, during a meeting organized by the International Code Council for a conference of the Texas General Land Office in Austin, Texas. The discussion focused on (1) building-code development (including applied research to quantify the value of modern building codes), (2) federal financial support for building-code adoption and enforcement, and (3) the role of state and local governments in actually adopting and enforcing codes.
