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FEMA
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Fact sheet summarizing the changes to the flood provisions in the 2012 I-Codes that appear in the 2015 edition.
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IBHS
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Guide describing the requirements by FORTIFIED Home™ for improving the home's resistance in severe thunderstorms, straight-line wind events, and high winds at the outer edges of tornadoes.
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IBHS
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Report summarizing the requirements to strenghthen new homes against property damage caused by high wind occurrences per the IBHS Fortified Homes High Wind Standard for New Homes.
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IBHS
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Checklist providing good and bad methods of fortifying the roof, especially in high wind situations.
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Building Science Corporation
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This Measure Guideline provides design and construction information for a deep energy enclosure retrofit solution of a flat roof assembly.
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Journal of Architectural Engineering,
American Society of Civil Engineers,
ASCE
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Study examining how design features, such as building envelope openings and compartmentalization, affect the wind pressure in typical low-rise buildings with gable and hip roofs.
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FEMA
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Webpage from FEMA describing how to properly reconstruct masonry fireplace chimneys damages by earthquakes.
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Medeek Design
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Webpage providing information about design snow loads and a free interactive ground snow load mapping tool for the contiguous United States, as well as snow load calculation methods.