Do you live in a Hurricane Prone State?

Rick De La Guardia, E.I., M. ASCE

rad@dlgengineering.com

http://www.wxnation.com/weatherblogs/wire/date/2005/10

Who should be concerned with ever increasing threats of powerful storms?

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Hurricanes are not just a Florida problem…

http://news.discovery.com/earth/early-hurricane-forecasts-what-are-they-worth-110407.htm

…but Floridians are the most experienced

A LESSON LEARNED: HURRICANE ANDREW (1992)

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s966.htm

http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/133761 http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag205.htm

What stands between us and the hurricane?

Windows

Doors

Our Building Envelope Products

Window Walls & Storefronts Curtain Walls

Skylights Railings

Glass Types: Monolithic: Annealed Heat Strengthened Tempered

Laminated Insulated Insulated-Laminated

Glass Strength Factors Annealed 1.0 Heat Strengthened 2.0 Tempered 4.0

What is the primary material of our envelope products?

Glass

Strong winds and flying debris can cause havoc

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html

But so can flooding

Hurricane Katrina 2005

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Who can best help you understand selecting, designing, testing and specifying

Hurricane Resistant Building Envelope products and Codes?

For a blog on and more information about hurricane mitigation

you can visit:http://dlgengineering.blogspot.com/

Or you can connect through:https://plus.google.com/+RickDeLaGuardiaTheBuildingEnvelope/about

Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the University of Miami.

President/Founder of DLG Engineering, Inc., a structural consulting firm based in South Florida.

Past-President of the University of Miami College of Engineering Alumni Association

20 years experience consulting in the building envelope and glazing field.

Developed and presented live webinars for the American Society of Civil Engineers on Hurricane Mitigation Design ( January, July and November 2013)

Vice Chair of the Architectural Engineering Institute’s Curtain Wall Committee.

Presented on hurricane design of glazing systems to: Florida Structural Engineers Association ATC-SEI 2012 Advances in Hurricane Engineering Conference

Written articles on: “Allowable Strength of Glass: How to Design Safely for Today’s Threats”

(US Glass Magazine, July 2010) “Growing Awareness: Changes in ASCE 7-10 to Affect Hurricane-Prone Regions”

(Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal, December 2011)

Rick De La Guardia, E.I., M. ASCE

rad@dlgengineering.com