How do builders and developers prepare for above-code performance to build residential buildings more resilient to natural hazards? Find out below! 🏘️

“Designing for Natural Hazards” 🌬️🌊🔥🌏⚠️

Home Innovation Research Labs (Home Innovation) was tasked by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a set of practical, actionable guidelines to assist builders and developers in designing and constructing residential buildings, neighborhoods, and accessory structures in a manner that could improve residential resilience to natural hazards and integrate resiliency throughout the community. The resilience guides provide technical content in a straightforward way that is easy for a layperson to understand, while also providing references through which design professionals, builders, developers, and public officials can obtain full details. The guide consists of five volumes. Each volume focuses on a major category of hazard that may pertain to a given project: wind, water, fire, earth (seismic, earthslides, sinkholes), and auxiliary (other hazards such as volcanoes, hail, and temperature extremes). These resilience guides are not intended to substitute for engineering or architectural project design work; rather, the technical guidance identifies components that can be enhanced or improved to achieve above-code performance to make residential buildings and other community assets more resilient.

HUD Website – https://lnkd.in/ggNjMxUu

🌬️ WIND: Designing for Natural Hazards Series Volume 1: Wind
https://lnkd.in/gYzzSyda
🌊 WATER: Designing for Natural Hazards Series Volume 2: Water
https://lnkd.in/gkeBwkmE
🔥 FIRE: Designing for Natural Hazards Series Volume 3: Fire
https://lnkd.in/guube7i8
🌏 EARTH: Designing for Natural Hazards Series Volume 4: Earth
https://lnkd.in/gJCkVkE3
⚠️ AUXILIARY: Designing for Natural Hazards Series Volume 5: Auxiliary
https://lnkd.in/g-s4byRa

These guides are part of larger initiatives, see the White House Press release here.
https://lnkd.in/gdYuhGpF

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