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• Building Safety Month Spotlights Resilience

  Posted On: May 16, 2012

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declared that May is Building Safety Month.

  Building Safety Month is a public awareness campaign offered each year during May to help individuals, families, and businesses understand what it takes to create and sustain safe and sustainable structures. The campaign reinforces the need for ...

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  Category: Resilience

• Rebuilding Resilient: "I don't need a safe room. I have safe house."

  Posted On: May 15, 2012

  May 22 marks the one year anniversary of the devastating F5 tornado that cleared a one mile wide by 14 mile long path of destruction through Joplin, Missouri.

  Older wood-frame homes were destroyed in the storm, leaving many fixed income elderly residents homeless. A local faith based organization, Convoy of Hope, ...

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  Category: Resilience

• GreenTown a Model for Resilient, Sustainable Rebuilding

  Posted On: May 14, 2012

  At PCA's Spring Meeting last month in Chicago, Joah Bussert, a project manager for Greensburg GreenTown, was on hand to describe the rebuilding efforts of Greensburg, Kansas, and Joplin, Missouri.

  Greensburg is a sparsely populated town in south central Kansas. On May 4, 2007, an EF5 tornado destroyed 95% of ...

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• Twinge of Optimism in Latest Forecast

  Posted On: May 02, 2012

  Driven by stronger-than-expected job growth, PCA chief economist Ed Sullivan expects the beginnings of a recovery in the construction industry to materialize this year.

  The forecast includes marginal improvements to nonresidential construction, an upward revision to housing starts, and an aggressive cement intensity gain, which is the amount of cement ...

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  Category: Market Intelligence