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04/11/2025: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Adapting Existing Buildings for Climate Change, Friday, April 11, 2025, 12pm-1pm Eastern

04/11/2025: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Adapting Existing Buildings for Climate Change, Friday, April 11, 2025, 12pm-1pm Eastern

1 hr. Webinar

Level: Intermediate

Item#: RV-W041125

SME: James Hoff

Resilience is the ability to adapt to changing conditions and recover functionality after stress or disruption, such as hurricanes, heat waves, or flooding. It involves both response and proactive planning.
Many of today’s resilient building strategies stem from past failures. Disasters like the 1871 Chicago Fire led to fire-resistant building standards, while the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave inspired cool roof guidelines. Hurricanes, especially Andrew in 1992 and Katrina in 2005, have taught us key lessons in wind resistance and building risk categories, as seen in the inadequacy of the Superdome during the latter disaster.
From these tragedies, we’ve developed stronger building strategies that are increasingly crucial as climate change intensifies extreme events. This webinar will provide building professionals with tools to implement eight key retrofit strategies that enhance resilience, helping buildings maintain functionality and recover swiftly after a severe event.
 
Note: This is a live webinar delivered via GoToWebinar. Session instructions will be emailed to you 24-48 hours prior to the webinar and the morning of the webinar. If you have not received your instructions for any reason, please call Customer Support (1-866-546-1212) the day of the event. Webinars are live and interactive. Students will have the ability to interact with and ask questions of the presenter directly.
Course Objectives
At the end of this webinar you will be able to:
  • Analyze historical natural disasters and identify the forces that must be addressed in order to assure building resilience and occupant safety.
  • Describe specifically how the forces unleased in a natural disaster may lead to building failure and adversely affect the welfare of its occupants.
  • Discuss six key strategies that can be employed to mitigate the effects of the forces of natural disasters and their impact on the building and the health and safety of its occupants.
  • Demonstrate how each of these six strategies can be incorporated into efficient and economical resilient building retrofits. 
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: James Hoff
Jim Hoff is an experienced executive and consultant in the building materials industry. Jim currently serves as President of TEGNOS Research, Inc. a consulting organization dedicated to expanding understanding of the building envelope. Since the founding of TEGNOS, Dr. Hoff has provided a wide variety of strategic and technical consulting services to dozens of governmental, non-profit and corporate organizations, and recent clients have included the U.S. Department of Energy, the U. S. EPA, building material trade associations, building materials manufacturers, building envelope designers and private equity firms. In addition to his industry research and consulting activity, Dr. Hoff also serves as the instructor for the successful "Commercial Roofing Boot Camp" course co-sponsored by Building Envelope Magazine. Jim has published numerous papers addressing a variety of technical and business topics germane to the building envelope industry and is a frequent speaker at building envelope, sustainability, and energy efficiency conferences.
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Accreditation: AIA Registered Provider J315
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Accreditation: AIA Registered Provider J315
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Accreditation: AIA Registered Provider J315
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Accreditation: AIA Registered Provider J315
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