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Floodproofing Non-Residential Buildings, FEMA P-936

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Author(s)
Low David K,
et al.
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Organization(s)
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
FEMA
Description
Report describing dry floodproofing technologies for non-residential buildings, including information about regulatory requirements, design considerations, and descriptions of floodproofing methods and equipment.

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-10

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Author(s)
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Organization(s)
ASCE,
SEI
Description
Standard using performance-based principles to determine dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind loads, and their combinations for general structural design. This version of the standard was published in the year 2010 and is available in both digital and print...