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Report describing the hurricane retrofit guide with focus on walls and wooded framed walls.

Fact sheet describing how to prepare for hurricane season and mitigate damage from floods and high winds.

Recovery advisory presenting key wind retrofit guidelines for buildings located in hurricane-prone regions. These retrofit guidelines are intended to help building owners and designers prevent or limit wind damage and water infiltration during high-wind events.

Code describing the requirements for existing site-built single-family homes to receive roof-to-wall retrofits when re-roofing.

Guide presents mitigation measures in a Mitigation Package which combined set of retrofit measures that must be implemented for a house to provide a defined level of protection; identifies three successive Mitigation Packages: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. Implementing the Mitigation Packages...

Article presenting the 2008 update on the 2006 details on when required hurricane mitigation retrofits are required and the cost cap on required hurricane mitigation retrofits.

Article describing dozens of ideas on how to retrofit a home so it is more earthquake ready.

Information sheet providing definitions, applications, and techniques for applying air barriers.

A website containing a video series by NW Seismic illustrating how a seismic retrofit should be done and ways they are done incorrectly.

Factsheet from HUD describing how to properly rebuild following natural disasters in Puerto Rico.

Factsheet from HUD describing how to rebuild following natural disasters in Puerto Rico.