Honestly, every year we hear about houses getting destroyed by tornados (and people getting buried under). They seem to be mostly wooden houses. So, why not build concrete houses, atleast in the high risk disaster prone areas?
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Well, last year in my country we got our first tornado ever and it destroyed old Soviet concrete houses very easy
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I’m a General Contractor in Florida. We follow a lot of building codes designed to strengthen the home in the event of a hurricane. When I was taking the classes to obtain my license they taught us there is hurricane building code because hurricanes are a slow build up of pressure, and there is no tornado building code because there’s no point.
I’m a General Contractor in Florida. We follow a lot of building codes designed to strengthen the home in the event of a hurricane. When I was taking the classes to obtain my license they taught us there is hurricane building code because hurricanes are a slow build up of pressure, and there is no tornado building code because there’s no point.
I’m a General Contractor in Florida. We follow a lot of building codes designed to strengthen the home in the event of a hurricane. When I was taking the classes to obtain my license they taught us there is hurricane building code because hurricanes are a slow build up of pressure, and there is no tornado building code because there’s no point.
Wood is much cheaper, faster to build, more sustainable (not that this has been a major consideration until recently), and materials have been traditionally more locally available.
Concrete isn’t automatically tornado-proof. Designing every house to resist a direct hit from a tornado wouldn’t just require a switch in materials, but a total rethinking of the degree of safety we expect from regular houses.
God it would be cool if they could add this to the FAQ. Every time there is a natural disaster in the US. “Why are homes made of flimsy wood” because it’s cheap and making stuff out of concrete and brick doesn’t stop natural disasters. Take a look at Turkey. Plenty of houses are brick here too, tornadoes are going to rip the roof and doors off anyways.
Wood is much cheaper, faster to build, more sustainable (not that this has been a major consideration until recently), and materials have been traditionally more locally available.
Concrete isn’t automatically tornado-proof. Designing every house to resist a direct hit from a tornado wouldn’t just require a switch in materials, but a total rethinking of the degree of safety we expect from regular houses.
Wood is much cheaper, faster to build, more sustainable (not that this has been a major consideration until recently), and materials have been traditionally more locally available.
Concrete isn’t automatically tornado-proof. Designing every house to resist a direct hit from a tornado wouldn’t just require a switch in materials, but a total rethinking of the degree of safety we expect from regular houses.
God it would be cool if they could add this to the FAQ. Every time there is a natural disaster in the US. “Why are homes made of flimsy wood” because it’s cheap and making stuff out of concrete and brick doesn’t stop natural disasters. Take a look at Turkey. Plenty of houses are brick here too, tornadoes are going to rip the roof and doors off anyways.
God it would be cool if they could add this to the FAQ. Every time there is a natural disaster in the US. “Why are homes made of flimsy wood” because it’s cheap and making stuff out of concrete and brick doesn’t stop natural disasters. Take a look at Turkey. Plenty of houses are brick here too, tornadoes are going to rip the roof and doors off anyways.
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