Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

As the 2025 hurricane season has begun, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) reintroduced the Residential Emergency Asset Accumulation ...

If you live in a high-risk area, consider retrofit construction to strengthen your home to protect against wind and/or flood ...

In April, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) ordered White Cloud to lower the impoundment ...

the homes aren't necessarily fireproof, but the design of the entire community eliminates the most common causes of homes catching fire.

Tampa, Florida has always known hurricanes. Nestled along the Gulf Coast, the city is no stranger to violent storms that tear through the region every year between June and November.

Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for ...

As climate-driven disasters intensify, experts spotlight metal's critical role in fire-resistant, resilient building design.

According to Julius Wambugu, director at Jukiwa General Agencies Ltd, developers are now constructing flood-resistant buildings by elevating foundations and using water-resistant materials such as ...

However, FEMA later determined that such structures violated floodplain ... FEMA and the town maintained they did not meet flood-resistant requirements, leading to the current code enforcement ...

Thousands of Manatee County property owners will soon receive letters that determine whether they will can repair their homes following hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton, or if they will need to ...

elevating the structure, using flood-resistant materials, proper flood venting, or demolition and reconstruction. The Substantial Damage requirements were designed to address the large numbers of ...