Daphne, AL, May 10, 2023 — The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) recently honored 29 FORTIFIED service providers and three supporting organizations for their contributions to the rapidly growing adoption of the FORTIFIED Home program.
IBHS has identified the following five concepts as central to the economics of community disaster resilience: (1) the importance of “going green and building strong”; (2) residential and commercial building performance; (3) emergency preparation and response as a shared responsibility; (4) building codes as a threshold, but not end goal; and (5) the need for…
Dr. Kelly Hereid Kelly is the Director of Catastrophe R&D at Liberty Mutual in the Corporate Enterprise Risk Management group. Prior to joining Liberty in 2020, Dr. Hereid was a research scientist at Chubb, starting in reinsurance with Chubb Tempest Re in 2012 and moving to the primary side natural catastrophe unit in 2018. She…
Dr. Anne Cope talks with FLASH about preparing your home for hurricane season.
Affordable guidance to prepare for hurricane season.
Following the fast-moving, devastating wildfire that engulfed the communities of Superior and Louisville, CO, IBHS experts were deployed to the region to gather data and meet with local residents and officials.
After a December tornado outbreak that ravaged communities in six states, join the IBHS team to discuss the cold-season severe event, its impact to the built environment, and code advances working to reduce the impact of future tornadoes. The team will explain building vulnerabilities that lead to residential and commercial failures and connect the event with insights from our research.
IBHS research shows building and maintaining defensible space can reduce wildfire risks.
