Download or read book A Homeowner s Guide to Hurricane Retrofit written by Institute for Business & Home Safety and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rehab Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Making Your Home Hurricane Resistant written by United Insurance Co and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards written by Dennis Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner s Guide to Retrofitting written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rehab Guide Roofs written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner s Guide to Retrofitting written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coastal Construction Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner s Guide to Retrofitting written by FEMA. and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coastal Construction Manual Vol 2 Principles and Practices of Planning Siting Designing Constructing and Maintaining Buildings in Coastal Areas Edition 3 August 2005 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guideline written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coastal Construction Manual Vol 1 Principles and Practices of Planning Siting Designing Constructing and Maintaining Buildings in Coastal Areas Edition 3 August 2005 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coastal Construction Manual Principles and Practices of Planning Siting Designing Constructing and Maintaining Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas Volume II Determining Site Specific Loads Etc June 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner s Guide to Retrofitting Six Ways to Protect Your Home from Flooding written by Federal Emergency Management Agency (U S and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has prepared this guide specifically for homeowners who want to know how to help protect their homes from flooding. As a homeowner, you need clear information about the options available to you and straightforward guidance that will help you make decisions. This guide gives you both, in a form designed for readers who have little or no experience with flood protection methods or building construction techniques. This guide includes the updates to the residential flood protection methods and reflected changes made to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Homeowners and community property managers located in flood zones, lowlands, and lands vulnerable to flooding following heavy rains may be most interested in this guide that offers practical tips and options to protect your residence. Related products: Home Builder's Guide to Coastal Construction is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/064-000-00055-1 Divine Providence is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-022-00364-9 Resources about Floods can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/natural-environmental-disasters/floods Water management resources collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/water-management

Download or read book Homeowner Decisions to Retrofit to Reduce Hurricane induced Wind and Flood Damage written by Zeinab Yahyazadeh Jasour and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as new incentive programs emerge to encourage homeowners to strengthen their homes so as to reduce the risk of damage in extreme events, little is known about how homeowners make such decisions. In this paper, we combine revealed and stated preference survey data to develop separate mixed logit models for homeowner decisions about retrofits aimed at addressing four different types of hurricane damage—wind damage to the roof, openings (windows, doors), and roof-to-wall connection, and flood damage. Results provide evidence that offering a grant increases the likelihood of retrofitting, but offer no such evidence for incentives in the form of low interest loans or insurance premium reductions. The models also suggest that the probability of retrofitting varies by type, with the most interest in strengthening openings, and that homeowners are more likely to retrofit when they are closer to the coast, younger, in newer homes, or within a year of a hurricane experience.

Download or read book Coastal Construction Manual Volume II Principles and Practices of Planning Siting Designing Constructing and Maintaining Buildings in Coastal Areas written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner Best Practices Guide for Residential Retrofits written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best practices guide for HV AC system retrofits is aimed at homeowners who want guidance on upgrading their heating, cooling and ventilation (HVAC) systems and integrating these upgrades with other changes to their home. It has been developed around the idea of having packages of changes to the building HV AC system and building envelope that are climate and house construction dependent. These packages include materials procedures and equipment, and are designed to remove some of the guesswork when selecting a builder, contractor, or installer. The packages are not meant to be taken as rigid requirements - instead they are systems engineered guidelines that form the basis for energy efficient retrofits. Similar approaches have been taken previously for new construction, where a systems engineering approach has been used to develop extremely energy-efficient homes that are comfortable safe and durable, and often cost less than standard construction. This approach is best epitomized by the Building America program, whose partners have built thousands of residences throughout the U.S. using these principles. The differences between retrofitting and new construction tend to limit the changes one can make to a building, so these packages rely on relatively simple and non-intrusive technologies and techniques. The retrofits also focus on changes to a building that will give many years of service to the occupants. Another key aspect of these best practices is that we need to know how a house is working so that we know what parts have the potential for improvement. To do this we have put together a set of simple tests that a homeowner can perform on their own together with checklists and questionnaires. The measured test results, observations and homeowner answers to questions are used to direct us towards the best retrofits applicable to each individual house. The retrofits will depend on the current condition of the building envelope and HV AC system, the local climate, the construction methods used for the house, and the presence of existing energy saving systems and/or materials. This is just like a doctor referring a patient for blood tests or x-rays before actually performing surgery. This way the doctor can be sure that he does the right thing. To take this analogy further - we can borrow from the medical profession and say that the first thought when retrofitting a house is to do no harm, i.e., do not make changes that could make the house worse to live in.