Design of Low-Rise Buildings for Extreme Wind Events
Publication: Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 13, Issue 1
Abstract
Damages from hurricanes and various windstorm events represent a loss of several billions of dollars in the United States. A loss of $30 billion was attributed to Hurricane Andrew alone in Florida in 1993. In 2004 and 2005, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other locations in the southeast United States and the Caribbean saw an unprecedented wave of major hurricanes causing great destruction and property damage. This paper discusses the topic of home design for high winds and hurricanes, and sums up a recently completed practical research on this subject.
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Acknowledgments
The writer wishes to thank the New Jersey Institute of Technology for funding this research, and CSTB, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, France, for its valuable cooperation.
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Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 13 • Issue 1 • March 2007
Pages: 54 - 62
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Received: Jan 24, 2005
Accepted: Dec 28, 2005
Published online: Mar 1, 2007
Published in print: Mar 2007
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