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Inside Out: Building Resilient Infrastructure to Safeguard Against Natural Disasters  

Civil + Structural Engineer

By Holly Schaubert As the world faces increasingly frequent and intense natural disasters, ensuring the nation’s infrastructure is built to last has never been more important. Natural disasters often occur concurrently or in rapid succession, making a multi-hazard approach essential. Approximately 1.5 Approximately 1.5

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10 Tips that Help Disaster-Proof Your Business

CCR Magazine

In an increasingly uncertain world, businesses must prioritize disaster preparedness to protect their assets, employees, and operational continuity. Disasters can be natural, like hurricanes and earthquakes, or human-induced, including cyber-attacks and other technological crises.

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Preparing Commercial Properties for Climate Change Impacts

CCR Magazine

Sustainable practices and infrastructure upgrades further enhance resilience to climate change. This evaluation should consider weather patterns, the vulnerabilities of your infrastructure, and proximity to hazards such as flood zones or wildfire-prone areas. Conducting a comprehensive risk assessment is essential.

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Preparing Commercial Properties for Hurricane Season: A Guide

CCR Magazine

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, pose significant financial risks to businesses, including property damage, lost inventory and prolonged closures that can threaten their survival. Studies have found that a quarter of small businesses do not recover after closing due to these events, highlighting the crucial importance of preparedness.

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Industry Focus: Data Centers – To Serve And Protect

Business Facilities

Data centers are generally multi-tenant Internet hosting data centers or single tenant enterprise data centers with minimum requirements for their telecommunications infrastructure specified by the Telecommunications Industry Association’s TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers.

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NIBS – Building Innovation 2012 – January 7th-11th, 2012, Washington, D.C.

Building Information Management

For nearly 40 years, the Institute, a non-profit, non-government organization, has served as an interface between government and the private sector, with the primary purpose of bringing together representatives of the entire building community to review advancements in science and technology and develop solutions for our built environment.

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Texas Tall

Business Facilities

Our hearts go out to all of the people in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast region of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana who are coping with the worst flooding disaster in U.S. The nation’s worst natural disaster brought out the best of human nature in Houston.