HIEMA, Funding, Resilience, and Health (Code Green)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 28/09/2021

HIEMA Has Funding for Strengthening Homes.  The host for this show is Howard Wiig.  The guest is Theresa Woznick.  

Climate change has exacerbated natural hazards, making it imperative that the state hazard mitigation plans updated to reflect current dangers.  It will include portions of the Hawai‘i 2050 Sustainability Plan and Hawai‘i’s goal of 100% clean energy by 2045.  The new Hurricane Homeowners Retrofit Program will fund the retrofitting and strengthening of homes, hardening them against hurricane force winds.  It will reduce energy use by including natural ventilation and will increase homes’ useful lives and add equity value. The goal is to include provisions that pay back within 10 years.  States and counties may qualify for HIEMA funding by implementing the Building Code effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS.)

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