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FEMA Proudly Supports the National Building Museum’s Designing for Disaster Exhibit
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Subject: FEMA Proudly Supports the National Building Museum�s Designing for Disaster Exhibit

 From earthquakes and tornadoes to flooding and wildfires, natural disasters can strike anywhere and at any time. Although no region of the country is immune from the impacts and rising costs of disaster damage, mitigation is the most effective way to reduce the risk to life and property. In light of this reality, the National Building Museum recently opened a multimedia exhibition titled Designing for Disaster, a call-to-action for citizen preparedness – from design professionals and local decision-makers to homeowners and school kids. In direct alignment with their mission to sustain and improve the Nation’s capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards, FEMA proudly supports the Designing for Disaster exhibit as it explores strategies that communities are using to reduce their risks and build more disaster-resilient communities. The exhibition opened May 11, 2014 and will remain on view through August 2, 2015. Visitors to Designing for Disaster will explore new approaches in design and engineering to protect life and property against a range of natural hazards. The exhibition is organized by the destructive forces associated with each of the elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Artifacts from past disasters, such as a door marked after Hurricane Katrina, singed opera glasses from the Waldo Canyon wildfire, and stone fragments from the earthquake-damaged National Cathedral, express the destructive power of nature. Multimedia components include expert profiles, interviews with industry leaders, and powerful films like the testing video from the Insurance Industry for Business & Home Safety Research Center in Richburg, South Carolina, where experts test the effect of gale-force winds on residential structures.Not to be missed at the exhibit:A partially deconstructed safe room following the design plans in FEMA P-320, Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room For Your Home or Small Business (FEMA, third edition, 2008). Safe rooms are hardened structures specifically designed to meet FEMA criteria and provide "near-absolute” life-safety protection in extreme weather events such as tornadoes and hurricanes.A “wall of wind” (modeled on Florida International University’s wind testing facility) invites visitors to test various roof shapes against simulated hurricane-force winds to see which shape performs best.A button-activated set of moving stairs that show how the expansion joints within the seating bowl at the University of California, Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium, which sits directly on the Hayward fault, would actually perform in the event of an earthquake.The exhibition closes with images and stories of everyday people who have taken steps both large and small to safeguard their homes and families and challenges visitors to do the same. Links to online resources, an ongoing exhibition blog, and a blog/social media campaign called #MitigationNation will help visitors get started. One such story is that of Tom Cook and his daughter who were saved by a safe room during the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado after having lost Tom’s wife in the 2008 Racine, Mo., tornado. To learn more and view the Tom Cook’s Safe Room Testimonial video visit http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/videos/81425. 
To learn more about the Designing for Disaster exhibit, please visit http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/designing-for-disaster.html.For more information on how to plan, prepare, and mitigate your community’s hazard risk, please visit http://www.fema.gov/plan-prepare-mitigate . For more information on FEMA’s Building Science Branch guidance on creating disaster-resilient communities, visit http://www.fema.gov/building-science .


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