Spring 2005
Sorting Out Disaster - Roofer’s Holiday - First Responder - Houses That Work - Safe Haven
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Breakline Sorting Out Disaster Forensic engineers play leading roles in setting future building policies The hurricane shifted the 1930s-era waterfront home off its pilings, sending them shooting through the living-room floor. That much was clear. Wilbur T. "Dusty" Yaxley's job was to find out whether the storm's winds or surge were to blame. Yaxley, of Seffner, Fla., is among a small cadre of structural forensic engineers whose date books filled as four hurricanes struck Florida last fall. Their job: To distill, from a home's jumbled and sodden remains, the drama of how wind, rain, flooding, construction, materials, or a combination
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