Enhancing Resilience of Residential Buildings Against Windstorms and Tornadoes
This online engineering PDH course focuses on enhancing building envelopes and load paths to minimize damage from high winds, windstorms, and tornadoes.
This course offers practical strategies to improve the resilience of wood-framed, one- and two-family residential buildings in tornado-prone regions. It explores various aspects of windstorm and tornado resilience, including roof cover protection, improvements to roof sheathing, exterior wall covering reinforcement, and upgrading windows, doors, and garage doors. The course also covers the critical importance of continuous load paths, roof-to-wall connectors, sill plate attachments, shear wall hold-down anchors, and gable wall bracing to ensure a building can withstand high-wind events.
This course applies to both new construction and retrofitting existing residential structures. It serves as an essential guide for structural engineers working in tornado-prone regions of the United States, offering valuable insights for improving building performance during windstorms and tornadoes.
This 1 PDH online course is applicable to structural and civil engineers and other technical professionals interested in learning more about enhancing resilience of residential buildings against windstorms and tornadoes.
- Understanding the improvements in building performance during high-wind events, including roof coverings, sheathing, and wall coverings
- Learning strategies to reduce wind damage to key components such as windows, doors, garage doors, soffits, and solar panels
- Gaining insight into essential structural elements like continuous load paths, roof-to-wall connectors, sill plate attachments, shear wall hold-down anchors, and gable wall bracing to enhance building resilience
- Exploring methods to improve the performance of exterior walls, roof systems, and connections between different structural elements to prevent failure during high-wind events
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