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Building Code Changes Resulting from FEMA’s Hurricane Sandy Mitigation Assessment Team Report
For over 20 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) has studied the performance of buildings affected by disasters of national significance. Following Hurricane Sandy, the MAT supported community resilience through changes to the building codes that evolved directly from lessons learned from that disaster. FEMA P-942, the Hurricane Sandy MAT report, contains 47 observation-based recommended actions related to building codes and standards. To date, 28 have been partially or fully enacted and others are under consideration. Successful examples include: modifying New Jersey’s building code to refer to ASCE 24, Flood Resistant Design and Construction, for all buildings on pile foundations, adding a requirement for flood zone special inspections in New York City, and consideration of adding a requirement of 2 feet of freeboard (additional height above design flood elevation) for the elevation of non-residential buildings in New York State. This paper includes information on how the Hurricane Sandy MAT observations and recommendations have supported building code changes, leading to stronger building codes and more resilient communities.
Building Code Changes Resulting from FEMA’s Hurricane Sandy Mitigation Assessment Team Report
For over 20 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) has studied the performance of buildings affected by disasters of national significance. Following Hurricane Sandy, the MAT supported community resilience through changes to the building codes that evolved directly from lessons learned from that disaster. FEMA P-942, the Hurricane Sandy MAT report, contains 47 observation-based recommended actions related to building codes and standards. To date, 28 have been partially or fully enacted and others are under consideration. Successful examples include: modifying New Jersey’s building code to refer to ASCE 24, Flood Resistant Design and Construction, for all buildings on pile foundations, adding a requirement for flood zone special inspections in New York City, and consideration of adding a requirement of 2 feet of freeboard (additional height above design flood elevation) for the elevation of non-residential buildings in New York State. This paper includes information on how the Hurricane Sandy MAT observations and recommendations have supported building code changes, leading to stronger building codes and more resilient communities.
Building Code Changes Resulting from FEMA’s Hurricane Sandy Mitigation Assessment Team Report
Ingargiola, John (author) / Sheldon, Adrienne (author) / Ghorbi, Laura (author)
Seventh Congress on Forensic Engineering ; 2015 ; Miami, Florida
Forensic Engineering 2015 ; 380-386
2015-11-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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