03/07/2023: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Designing Resilient Building Envelopes, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12pm-1pm Eastern

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The concept of resilience is gaining attention among building professionals as a way to address the risks to building occupants posed by severe storms, droughts and similar climate-related threats. Compared to the related concept of durability, resiliency looks beyond considerations of material strength and design redundancy by asking how building occupants will be protected if and when critical building systems fail. In other words, resilience addresses what happens when the power goes out, when roads are closed, when building occupants may be isolated from critical support services.

Because the building envelope plays an important role in shielding occupants from the elements, proper wall and roof system design can help increase the overall resilience of the entire building. Starting with a working definition of building resiliency, this webinar will explore different strategies for achieving resilience in wall and roof system design. The webinar also will focus on how properly designed wall and roof systems can help protect building occupants and equipment in the event of prolonged power outages. Finally, this webinar will provide participants with eight key resilience strategies that can be used to review and incorporate critical resiliency features into any building envelope design.

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Objectives SME

Course Objectives

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

Differentiate between the concepts of "resilience," "durability" and "sustainability" as applied to the built environment.
Discuss how past disasters have influenced the evolution of resilient design and community health and safety.
Identify how modern wall and roof systems can be critical elements in achieving resilience in buildings to protect community welfare.
Identify the key strategies available for incorporating resiliency into wall and roof system design and how these techniques can enhance the safety and comfort of building occupants.

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.