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Thousands of homeowners and businesses face the challenge of recovering from that destruction, and the first line of defense for many is their flood insurance.
Emergency legislation to provide funding for hurricane recovery is bogged down in the lame-duck Congress, as Democrats and Republicans spar over the details
Low-lying Delaware is one of the Atlantic Coast states with a major exposure to ocean flooding, and sea level rise could damage the state badly.
Since 2007, Florida has required contractors to reinforce the wall-to-roof connection during some remodeling or re-roofing work.
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New York City authorities are planning to re-draw the maps that define the areas in the city at risk from flood.
Rebuilding will not mean simply putting back what was there — in many cases, homes will have to comply with tougher standards than before.
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The methods insurance estimators use are a far cry from the way most contractors estimate.
Hurricane Sandy has generated hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of paying work for residential contractors, but that work is not going to be easy — and the money to be made is not going to be easy money either.
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While FEMA has spent or at least authorized hundreds of millions of dollars in relief, the government's resources do have limits.
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Almost six weeks after Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City, parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island are still reeling from the blow.
Chris Corson is working on another Passive House — this time, with a more ample budget, and a more complex design.
Life has changed radically for residents of the New Jersey barrier island towns, and for the contractors who work there.
One of Sandy's impacts is still being felt a month later: the storm cut North Carolina Route 12, the slender link between the barrier island chain and the mainland.
A few miles inland, where the winds were moderate and the flood waters did not penetrate, life is back to normal for most people. But on the shores, the trouble is just beginning.
Buyers recruited at get-rich-quick seminars like this bought Myrtle Beach properties at inflated prices using sketchy documentation, then defaulted, banks alleged.
South Carolina's coast has some good markets for homebuilding
There are three locations along the U.S. coast that should immediately begin planning to install hurricane storm surge barriers.
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Some of the homes in New York City that were damaged by Sandy are beyond repair, authorities have concluded.
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Among the assets destroyed by Superstorm Sandy was one piece of critical infrastructure that didn't even exist two decades ago: the cabling and switching that serves lower Manhattan's data networks.
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The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) expects flood claims to exceed its statutory reserves.
The disaster has also spurred critics to question whether it's wise to build and rebuild on the fragile, vulnerable ocean shore.
Thousands of homes on the South Shore are still in the dark because they can't be connected to the grid until they've passed a wiring safety inspection — or because they've already had the inspection, and failed.
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Belfast's Ecovillage isn't your typical development — it's an "intentional community" patterned after the cohousing projects of northern Europe.
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A Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's audit of the non-profit's practices says that Rebuild Northwest Florida paid a hand-picked contractor too much to manage the work.
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Another Chinese drywall maker must face Florida and Virginia state court jurisdiction in lawsuits over defective drywall, Federal and state courts have ruled this month.
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Isaac's storm surge and wave action uncovered old deposits of spilled oil and tar from 2010's devastating BP oil release.
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Southern Pine lumber will get new engineering strength values and new span tables with reduced spans for visually graded lumber.
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Canadians continue to flock to Florida.
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Glenn Mathewson presents a two-day program of study for the North American Deck and Railing Association (NADRA) Master Deck Building Certification.
How about a tunnel 3,900 feet long? That's the job facing a public-private consortium that's working to improve traffic flow in the Port of Miami.
Mataverde has developed a whole rain screen system including clips, fasteners, trim packages, and fasteners.
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Builders are getting re-acquainted with a problem that used to be familiar: a shortage of skilled labor.
Some neighborhoods where FEMA has been hard to spot are feeling the presence of another force: the Occupy Wall Street movement, reborn as Occupy Sandy.
According to a CBS News report, about 76,000 LIPA customers still did not have service on Monday.
With the Superstorm long gone and its Nor'easter aftershock fading also, New Jersey contractors are coming to grips with a long, arduous task of repair and reconstruction.
While Sandy's strongest winds and worst flooding occurred on the ocean shores of New Jersey, Connecticut shoreline communities on the Long Island Sound also got a beating.
The southern shore of New Jersey took the direct impact of Superstorm Sandy's onslaught. Barrier island communities on the Jersey Shore were decimated.
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Even for homeowners who do carry flood insurance, policy limits are tight.
The region is just beginning to tally last week's damage from the killer "super storm" Sandy, but Northeast residents are now bracing for a second, though smaller onslaught from a classic Nor'easter.
It's an ambitious proposal: Build a bridge spanning open water, seven miles long, to link North Carolina's Outer Banks with the mainland.
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Last week's meeting of the American Lumber Standards Committee (ALSC) was supposed to be the beginning of the end game in the revision of official design values for Southern Pine dimensional lumber.
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Should the thousands of independent in-ground septics should be classified as point sources of pollution under the Clean Water Act of 1972?
The future of some high-profile public construction projects in Dade County, Fla., has been thrown into uncertainty following criminal investigations into bid-rigging and kickbacks.
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As the building industry shows signs of life, the county is considering raising impact fees.
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The Miami Herald is reporting that some Florida seniors are considering going without windstorm policies on their homes — or have actually allowed their insurance to lapse.
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Three manufacturing industry groups for residential and commercial doors and windows have joined forces to create and release a new “standard practice" document for installing doors in the coastal environment.
Coastal Connection followed along as Belfast, Maine, builder Chris Corson built his first custom home designed to the strict Passive House standard for new construction.
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Florida International University researchers have launched their brand new hurricane-force wind simulation test facility.
CitiLog - a small custom sawmill operation that specializes in harvesting and "upcycling" the often neglected urban forest.
August 24th marked the 20th anniversary of the date that Hurricane Andrew made landfall on South Florida's Atlantic coast.
It's a mild year for hurricanes, so far. But as emergency managers like to point out, it only takes one hurricane to ruin your day.
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