IIT Roorkee -Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee& Shri Trilochan Upreti Smriti Himalyai Sodh Sansthansuccessfully organised a one-day Workshop onDisaster Risk Resilience & Mitigationon 16 January ...
From smarter materials to proactive planning, these strategies help create resilient schools that stay open and prepared for ...
When disaster strikes — a hurricane, an earthquake, a wildfire, a major storm surge — we see the impact: homes lost, critical infrastructure damaged, lives disrupted. What we often don’t see is the ...
Shigetaka Hirosato, Board Director and President of Off-Grid Field Co., Ltd., founded the company out of a desire to transform conditions at construction sites, and Takahisa Yashiro of Hitachi ...
The wake of Hurricane Andrew in Dade County, Fla., in August 1992. Fifty-four people died in the storm, which caused over $27 billion in damages and led to Florida’s adoption of a statewide building ...
As hurricane season accelerates and extreme weather events grow in frequency and intensity, communities face a pivotal moment. For decades, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) served as the ...
In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...
The Christmas Eve fire outbreak at a 25-storey building on Lagos Island has once again thrust Nigeria’s emergency response system into the public spotlight.It has also renewed concerns over the ...
Illustration of the proposed SS-FT framework. (A-B) show the overall SS-FT and the model’s dataflow. (C-D) elaborates on the supervised fine-tuning, and the self-supervised contrastive learning ...
The new 36,650-sq.-ft. EOC in Blaine replaces the outdated facility in St. Paul, incorporating renewable energy systems and solar power to enhance reliability during ...
Sakaja said counties are often left powerless after taking enforcement action, as cases against developers stall once they reach the prosecution stage.