A group of property/casualty insurance senior executives and CEOs met with senior White House officials last week to discuss resilience, property mitigation and related issues. Julie Rochman, CEO of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), a research firm dedicated to making homes more resistant to extreme weather damages, was in attendance. “As […]

The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) announced that it is launching a new program called Fortified HomeTM – Hurricane designed to help homeowners build safer, stronger new homes, and retrofit existing homes to make them more resistant to hurricanes. During the last few years, IBHS has conducted pilot projects using the new […]

The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) announced that video and photographs from testing conducted at the organization’s research center are part of the Washington D.C., National Building Museum’s newest exhibit, Designing for Disaster, which opened to the public on May 11. “IBHS conducts objective, scientific research to identify, evaluate and promote effective […]

The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) joined with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the first National PrepareAThon on April 30, which will help home and business owners become better prepared for natural disasters. “Research shows that communities, families and individuals who prepare in advance for possible disasters are better able […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says a top priority is to work with state, local, and private sector partners in an effort to make communities more resilient in the face of disasters. As part of that effort, DHS is undertaking a pilot project designed to promote building design that recognizes best practices that help […]

A year ago Hurricane Sandy knocked out power, flooded streets and destroyed homes in dozens of communities along the Atlantic Coast. Among the areas hardest hit by the storm were New Jersey and New York, where thousands were displaced from their homes and businesses. Since then, life is returning to normal, but, as is often […]

The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety’s (IBHS) Fortified Home programs and standards are recommended in the federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force’s Rebuilding Strategy released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The strategy includes 69 recommendations from the task force, which has been meeting since last year to create […]

The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) released a midterm update to its Rating the States Report, which reviews the progress that the 18 most hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast have made in strengthening their residential building codes. “As we approach the anniversaries of Hurricanes Andrew […]

Dr. Murray Morrison, a research engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), was presented the Richard Marshall Award last week during the 12th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering (ACWE) in Seattle. Morrison, a member of the American Association for Wind Engineering, was recognized for the best doctoral thesis related to experimental […]

You may not know that the International Code Council (ICC) has deemed May National Building Safety Month, and that this week focuses on disaster safety and mitigation. To that end, groups including the ICC and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) are touting the importance of state enactment and enforcement of modern […]