Oregon could experience a magnitude-8.7 or larger earthquake within 50 years that causes catastrophic deaths and damage. Portland…
The National Mitigation Resource Portal (NMRP) aims to enhance community resilience by convening and streamlining mitigation efforts…
The following publications were prepared for the U. S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency by the…
This document proposes to develop and demonstrate a set of public and private incentives to owners of buildings and other…
This white paper, released by the Institute’s Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC) and Council on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (…
The National Institute of Building Sciences project team undertook the present project to operationalize the NIPP 2013 framework into…
Resiliency has become a growing concern in the national psyche. President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding…
Given the gravity of manmade and natural hazard events of the last decade, designing buildings that not only offer resistance, but…
From 2000 to 2005, the MMC, commissioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), conducted a Congressionally mandated…