Sarah Bobby

One beachfront house survived Hurricane Michael intact—the now-famous “Sand Palace”—could we quantify the impact of its mitigating features using a catastrophe model?

While the fate of the communities exposed to this monster will become apparent, here is what we can expect in terms of performance of the building stock in this part of Florida.

One of a community's best defenses against natural perils in general, and hurricanes in particular, is making sure that strong building codes are adopted and well-enforced.

Even as all eyes were on Irma's destructive path through the Caribbean and its approach toward Florida, AIR's damage survey team were in Houston, TX, studying the flood damage caused by Hurricane Harvey's record-breaking precipitation.

AIR's damage survey team arrived in Texas on Tuesday evening and spent Wednesday in Rockport, a small coastal city that took the brunt of Category 4 Harvey's wind speeds at landfall.

At the end of May several researchers at AIR attended the 13th America’s Conference on Wind Engineering (ACWE) hosted by the University of Florida. This conference is held once every four years and brings together top researchers in the field of wind engineering in the Americas.

Hurricane Matthew caused significant storm surge when it made landfall about 40 miles northeast of Charleston, South Carolina, on October 8, 2016.