With extreme weather increasingly frequent due to the effects of Global Warming, news of various disasters supplied steadily from around the globe, and home insurance companies increasingly reluctant to meet claims or provide insurance in the first place, there has been growing concern about the ability of homes to withstand nature's fury. The Modular Housing System from USS offers a number of advantages with hazard and disaster resistance compared to conventional building methods. We will look at how MHS compares against conventional stick frame construction and prefabricated mobile housing in the face of different hazards.
One of the common mistakes made by designers when addressing the issue of disasters and hazards is to focus exclusively on withstanding the effects of nature without damage.
But in any arms race between man and nature, nature usually wins. So it's just as important to think about how a structure recovers from damage, how a building is repaired and its materials salvaged in order to ameliorate the inconvenience and financial losses from a disaster. As we will see, this is one area where MHS excels compared to all other structural systems.
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