Cost effectiveness of hurricane mitigation measures for residential buildings

11th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pinelli, Jean Paul ^a   Torkian, Boback Bob ^b   Gurley, Kurt ^c   Subramanian, Chelakara ^a   Hamid, Shahid ^d  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; FLORIDA; MITIGATION MEASURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES; ROOFING MATERIALS; ZIP CODE;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BUILDINGS; COST ACCOUNTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MASONRY MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROOFS; TIMBER;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862075848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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