Claims Journal reports that the Florida-based consumer advocacy group, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH), provides recommendations in its latest paper, Disaster Resilience Rising Means the Time is Right<http://www.flash.org/disasterresiliencerising.pdf>, for strengthening the U.S. building code system through the development of disaster resilience policies that mitigate damage before a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes. And one of the most fundamental elements to disaster resilience, according to FLASH, is having states and local jurisdictions updating, adopting, and enforcing the latest and greatest building codes. The authors of the paper write, “…institutionalizing older codes can handicap communities ‘ efforts to achieve resilience.” FLASH proposes in its paper six innovations to the current U.S. building code system. Claims Journal summarizes what those are in the article. Read More >
