Resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to weather events and safety risks
WeatherBuild®, Decision Support Solutions for the Construction Industry and Built Environment®, is proud to be a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN, www.weather.gov/wrn/) Ambassador™, “…an initiative of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, www.noaa.gov), to strengthen partnerships with external organizations toward building community resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events.” The Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador™ Initiative supports innovative partnerships between numerous government agencies and weather information providers, also referred to as the “weather enterprise,” to improve decision making.
NOAA recognizes WeatherBuild as a “change agent” helping to minimize, mitigate, or avoid the impacts of weather events across the construction industry and built environment.
As a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN, www.weather.gov/wrn/) Ambassador™, NOAA recognizes WeatherBuild as a “change agent” and leader in the community, “…helping to minimize, mitigate, or avoid the impacts of natural disasters…” and weather events across the construction industry and built environment. This year, Weather-Ready Nation 2018 National Hurricane Preparedness Week (https://www.weather.gov/wrn/hurricane-preparedness) is May 6th through May 12th. National Hurricane Preparedness Week includes a hurricane awareness tour, a National Hurricane Center: Hurricane Webinar 2018, Hurricane Safety Tips and Resources (https://www.weather.gov/safety/hurricane), and other hurricane and weather safety resources.
5 Steps for Hurricane Preparedness in the Construction Industry and Built Environment
Weather-Ready Nation 2018 National Hurricane Preparedness Week and WeatherBuild, Decision Support Solutions for the Construction Industry and Built Environment, provide five steps for delivering the actionable information, such as weather events, schedule impacts, safety risks, and probable outcomes, to project stakeholders across the construction industry and built environment:
- Emphasize the dangers of each hazard and threat, specific to each of your projects.
- Focus on important areas: communicating impacts, such as health, safety and environment.
- Use the National Hurricane Center — included with WeatherBuild severe weather reports.
- Only share reliable sources, such as WeatherBuild Decision Support Solutions.
- Highlight hazards that continue after storms pass each construction site or facility operations.
(Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, www.noaa.gov), Weather-Ready Nation 2018 National Hurricane Preparedness Week, https://www.weather.gov/wrn/hurricane-preparednes)
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, WeatherBuild® offers a suite of decision support solutions that empower contractors, owners and operators to improve situational awareness and make better-informed decisions about weather events, schedule impacts and probable outcomes.
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