Design of Buildings in High Wind Coastal Areas

Course Description:

The entire design process is based on the fundamental premise that anticipated service and natural hazard loads can and must be transferred through the building in a continuous path to the supporting soils. Any weakness in that continuous path is a potential point of failure of the building, and any failure creates the possibility for large property losses and the potential for loss of life.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Applying loads to the buildings
• Understand the structural building systems
• Determine forces at connections and stresses in material
• Know the breakaway wall enclosures
• Understand the coastal construction design process