Build Hurricane Resistant Structures: Protecting Properties through Efficient Modern Design
A property worth millions of dollars should not only be functional but also competent to stand the angst of nature. How can you protect it? Build it with top of the class structural design services from accredited engineering companies to make our building earthquake proof to the highest extent human knowledge can achieve.
We are all aware of the devastation a hurricane can bring to a community. Aside from literal structural damage, and deaths it also creates significant effect among the citizens that survive. In a study made and published in the Journal of Adolescent Health entitled “Effects of a Major U.S. Hurricane on Mental Health Disorder Symptoms among Adolescents and Young Females”, it revealed that 46.3 % of the respondents experienced damage both physically and mentally. This is more than enough proof that there is a need to protect ourselves from unwanted angst of nature. Why risk your safety if you can implement ways to prevent it.
Great storms, tornadoes and hurricanes have one thing in common; strong winds that can wreck havoc with your lifetime worth of investments. Although we cannot dance and ask Mother Nature to spare us, with proper construction and design, we can reduce the damage.
Structural design engineers are your guardian angels in protecting your properties. They are widely knowledgeable on how to analyze and design structures; big or small, that support or resist loads. Their knowledge spans from structural steel design to machineries. Few points that they certainly ensure in every project is the satisfaction of the design criteria that are contemplated on safety. Yes, safety is the basic foundation of structural engineering. Their work ensures that structures do not collapse easily, they implement specific precautions. It includes ways that are implemented to create a safe, strong, and highly functional work of art and brain.
It starts from a comprehensive assessment of your place and intricately studying statistics to be able to create a highly factual foundation in creating designs that does not only meet your needs, the law of the given place but also your intrinsic need to be safe. There should be wind loading considerations and a strong proof that the weak points such as openings are secured. Hurricane proof-building can be composed of hurricane shutters; for the openings of the structure, doors that are strong enough to resist high winds and use of reinforced concrete. With all this, including a widely studied in ground foundation, your building is sure to be hurricane prepared. But as responsible citizens, we should also educate our employees to be ready in case of a tropical cyclone. To be able to minimize damage to the greatest extent we can.
Implementing structural design to properties does not limit its resistance in standing great hurricanes. It spans to make a structure withstand other natural disasters to adequate degree of damage. From safety it can also play vital role in the economic, aesthetic, environmental and social value of the structure. Paris became one of the most visited places of the world because of the Eifel Tower, a standing proof of one of the best historical accomplishment of structural design. A whole civilization was able to flourish and survive due to Pont du Gard, an aqueduct bridge that delivers water from the mountains to the cities of Rome. The roots of structural design dates to 2700 B.C.: the pyramids. And all are gallantly standing until today, playing vital roles in their own unique way.
And like the coliseum of Rome, through implementing efficient structural design grounded on the most modern and recent discoveries, your structure can also endure the test of time.
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