Relationship between residential losses and hurricane winds: role of the Florida building code -

The effectiveness of the Florida Building Code (FBC) against the impacts of wind speed, duration of strong winds, and wind directional change is quantified. For seven historical hurricanes that impacted Florida during 2004 and 2005, wind speed, duration, a...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news