Laserfiche WebLink
<br />Notice <br />This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the <br />United States Government. Neither the Unijed States nor the Office <br />of Federal Insurance and Hazard Mitigation, Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency (FEMA), nor any of their employees, nor any <br />of their contractors, subcontractors, nor their employees, makes <br />any warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or <br />responsibility tor the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any <br />information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor <br />represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. <br /> <br />Products Statement <br />The NAHB Research Foundation, Inc., does not endorse nor <br />recommend any product or category of products identified in this <br />report. No attempt has been made to list all manufacturers of stated <br />categories of products, and therefore, no slight is intended by the <br />omission of such names. When individual manufacturers' names <br />are listed, it does not mean that their product has a quality any <br />higher or lower than similar products made by other manufacturers. <br /> <br />Acknowledgements <br />The author and principal investigator, Dr. Charles M. Anderson, <br />P.E., and co-investigator Mr. Hila W. Anderson, P.E.t gratefully <br />acknowledge the basic work of the original BRAB authors, whose <br />material was the source of the data in this report; policy guidance <br />from the Federal Insurance Administration; and graphics by Porter, <br />Novelli and Associates, Inc., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. <br /> <br />vi <br />