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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join us for an informative presentation and discussion on the valuable benefits of hazard mitigation! You may attend this discussion in person or via webinar.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: An Update to the Groundbreaking 4-to-1 Study of 2005<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Keith Porter, PE, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Natural hazards threaten communities across the United States, but governments, owners, developers, tenants, and others can reduce disaster impacts through mitigation. These measures can improve safety and prevent
property loss and disruption of day-to-day life. The National Institute of Building Sciences’ Multihazard Mitigation Council has updated and greatly expanded upon its groundbreaking 2005 study for the US Congress,
<i>Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves</i>, often called the 4-to-1 study. The update offers benefit-cost ratios for code adoption and above-code design of new buildings, remediation of utilities and transportation infrastructure, and refreshes its 2005 estimates
of public-sector retrofit benefits. It will soon add private-sector retrofit. It has added two perils to those previously considered, and produced maps of benefit-cost ratios by county in the conterminous 48 United States. It disaggregates benefits to five
stakeholder groups, considers six benefit categories, and quantifies lives saved, job creation, and savings to the federal treasury. It has enhanced the study’s accessibility with brief fact sheets: 2-page documents each focused on one aspect of the study,
with text and images aimed at a general, nontechnical audience. See Figure 1 for some summary results to date.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#6C6E70">Table 1. Benefit-cost ratios and total savings by hazard and mitigation measure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Keith Porter is a research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and principal of the consulting company SPA Risk LLC. He has 30 years of experience in engineering practice and university research addressing natural disasters. He leads the new
<i>Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves</i> study for the National Institute of Building Sciences, performing benefit-cost analysis of code adoption, above-code design, retrofit of private-sector and public-sector buildings, and retrofit of lifelines. He helped
to lead development of several disaster planning scenarios for the US Geological Survey, including ShakeOut, ARkStorm, and HayWired. Prof. Porter is a licensed California Professional Engineer and holds civil and structural engineering degrees from UC Davis,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Shelly O'Toole<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Mitigation Grants Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Framingham MA 01702<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Desk - 508-820-1443<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif">Cell – 774-270-5585<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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