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IAPMO
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Code set from IAPMO explaining plumbing standards. 2015 publication.
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FEMA
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Guide discussing the siting of residential and community safe rooms at appropriate elevations and locations.
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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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Resilient Design Institute
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Website describing wet floodproofing measures to prevent against structural damage, internal damage and damage to electrical components.
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NOAA
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Document describing living shoreline techniques for shoreline stabilization.
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Alliance for Residential Building Innovation,
ARBI,
Davis Energy Group,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Article from NREL on wall construction guidelines for homes in hot climate zones.
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FEMA
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ICC 500 provides the minimum requirements to safeguard public health, safety, and general welfare relative to the design, construction, and installation of storm shelters constructed for protection from high winds associated with tornadoes and hurricanes.
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The Getty Conservation Institute
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Newsletter containing five articles focused on seismic retrofitting.