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MAT Report Hurricane Irma Maria Virgin Islands, 2018
- Structure Bookmarks [Go to Page]
- Executive Summary
- Mitigation Assessment Team
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1.1 Organization of the Report
- 1.2 Overview of Recent Hurricanes
- 1.3 History of Previous Major Hurricanes
- 1.4 FEMA Mitigation Assessment Team
- 1.5 Summary of Observations
- Building Codes and Standards, NFIP Regulations, and USVI Construction Guidance
- 2.2 National Flood Insurance Program
- 2.3 Construction Information for a Stronger Home
- 2.4 Current Efforts with the USVI Building Code
- 2.5 Safe Rooms and Storm Shelters
- 2.6 Topography
- Wind Performance of Single and Multi-Family Residential Buildings
- 3.2 Residential Wind and Wind-Driven Rain Performance During the 2017 Hurricanes
- 3.3 Home Protection Roofing Program
- Performance of School Facilities
- 4.1 Performance Relative to Flood (Coastal, Riverine, Storm Water Sheet Flow)
- 4.2 Performance Relative to Wind and Wind-Driven Rain
- 4.3 Sheltering and School Facilities
- Performance of Hospital Facilities
- 5.1 Roy Lester Schneider Hospital at the Schneider Regional Medical Center
- 5.2 Myrah Keating Smith Health Center
- 5.3 Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center
- 5.4 Emergency Operations after Hurricanes
- Performance of Critical Facilities
- 6.1 Fire Stations
- 6.2 Airports
- Wind Performance of Solar Panel Systems
- 7.1 Performance of Ground-Mounted Solar Panel Arrays
- 7.1.3 Estate Donoe Solar Array
- 7.1.4 Small Ground-Mounted Arrays
- 7.2 Performance of Rooftop-Mounted Solar Panel Arrays
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- 8.1 Overview of Conclusions and Recommendations
- 8.2 General Conclusions and Recommendations
- 8.3 Building Codes, Standards and Regulations
- Conclusion USVI-10 DPNR does not provide a list of specific notes and design criteria for design professionals to include on construction drawings: The IBC© and IRC© provide some guidance for minimal information that should be included on construction documents to clarify design information and criteria. However, the minimum guidance provided in the code is much less than requirements set forth to be included on construction drawings in other areas prone to hurricanes, for example, by many county building d
- 8.4 General Building Considerations
- 8.5 Residential Buildings
- 8.6 Manufactured Housing
- 8.7 Schools, Hospitals, and Critical Facilities
- 8.8 Sheltering
- 8.9 Solar Panel Systems
- 8.10 Topographic Effects on Wind Speeds
- 8.11 FEMA Technical Publications and Guidance
- 8.12 Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Acronyms
- Recovery Advisories for Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the USVI
- Basic Wind Speed Maps for the USVI [Go to Page]
