# Presentation: 158006

## An IBHS Presentation 

- An IBHS Presentation

**Notes:**
Type in the name of the organization    

## What is IBHS?

**Notes:**
Our mission statement, or in other words (next slide). . . .

## . . .it does not have to be this way.

**. . .it does not have to be this way.**

**We believe. . . **

**Notes:**
We believe that what we do can help prevent scenes of devastation like this.

## Building smarter

- to prevent building over

**Notes:**
Safer homes and communities mean prevention and sound land use planning.

## Wildfires

**Wildfires**

**Earthquakes**

**Hailstorms**

**Floods**

**Windstorms**

**Notes:**
The main perils:  wildfires, windstorms (hurricanes, tornadoes), earthquakes, floods and hailstorms.

## Strategic Initiatives

- Community Land Use
- Construction of New Buildings
- Retrofit of Existing Structures
- Public Outreach
- Information Management

**Notes:**
Five key initiatives of IBHS, each to be discussed in the following slides.

## Community Land Use

- Educate people about the relationship between land use and disaster losses and the value of building out of harm’s way.
- Work with state and local governments to adopt procedures requiring consideration of natural hazards vulnerability in making land use decisions.

**Notes:**
Natural phenomena only become natural disasters when they cross man’s path.  Where we build has a lot to do with how vulnerable we are to natural disasters.

## Construction of New Buildings

- Ensure that all new structures will be designed, engineered and constructed using up-to-date techniques and materials that prepare for natural disasters.
- Promote codes, structural design and engineering techniques and construction materials that are low cost and effective in reducing disaster losses.

**Notes:**
We never know when or where a natural disaster will strike, but we do know ways to substantially reduce the risk of being impacted by a disaster.  

## Retrofit of Existing Structures

- Develop cost-effective techniques for retrofitting existing structures.
- Establish incentives for all stakeholders to use these techniques to retrofit existing structures.
- Organize and publicize programs that lead to retrofitting high-risk human care facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, schools, etc).

**Notes:**
New knowledge about natural disasters and engineering can be incorporated into structures built before new information was available.

## Public Outreach

- Business
- Emergency managers
- The insurance industry
- The media

- Planners
- Lenders
- Designers
- Builders
- The general public

- To increase awareness about natural hazards, understand the associated risks, know how to reduce them and want to reduce them.

**Notes:**
Who do we tell our story to?

## Information Management

- Provide for the collection, analysis and dissemination of natural disaster loss and preparedness information.
- Develop and maintain a database of insurer paid losses from natural disasters.

**Notes:**
When a hurricane cuts a swath through several counties or states, the information about insured losses is put into a database which our members can study and analyze. This will help us further understand more about natural disasters and the communities they strike. 

## FORTIFIED

* ...**for safer** **living**.*TM

**Objective:  People will only buy**
**or rent a fortified structure**

**Notes:**
A new program to build structures designed to protect from natural perils is called “Fortified. . . For a safer living.”  Special attention is paid to those areas of the structure susceptible to the various perils.

## Slide 13

**Notes:**
It’s an age-old story.  Surviving a catastrophe doesn’t have to be a fairy tale.

## IBHS Research Services

**On-site library contains over 2,500 books and periodicals, almost 300 videos, and other types of print and visual materials.  **
**The Information Center offers reference assistance and in-depth research on any topic relating to natural disasters.**
**Reference assistance form and a list of videos available for loan can be accessed on the IBHS Web site**

**IBHS Research Services**

**Notes:**
Our library is your library.

## 		www.ibhs.org

**Natural Hazard Mitigation Insights**
**Guidelines/Manuals**
**Studies/Reports**

**Covering building construction, codes, natural perils, land use, protection, and more**
**	****	****www.ibhs.org**

## WE

- IBHS

**WE**

**To help make our nation stronger**