ENGENSUS engineers offers hurricane risk consulting related to:

Threat

• Probabilistic wind speed analysis
• Detailed wind load analysis
• Wind hazard analysis from windborne debris and laydown hazards
• Estimation of coastal threats

Vulnerability

• Analyze a structure’s ability to resist wind and storm surge loads
• Evaluate the ability of building cladding systems to resist wind pressures, debris impact, and rain infiltration
• Estimate the likelihood of the undermining of structural foundations by scour during an individual storm and over time
• Assess the capabilities of vital transportation and communication networks
• Identify critical system or process components

Consequence

• Mathematically estimating probable outcomes based on combination of threat and vulnerability
• Calculating benefit / cost ratios for consequence-based decisions

Mitigation and Planning

• Ensuring load path continuity
• Implementing system redundancies
• Protecting utilities and mechanical systems
• Cladding fortification, window and opening protection
• Protecting against scour and erosion hazards
• Site selection consulting to minimize hurricane vulnerability of proposed facilities
• Developing business disaster readiness planning
• Reviewing processes or services for critical links
• Identifying key equipment and supplies to protect and stockpile
• Evacuation and emergency preparedness planning
• Practices for sheltering-in-place
• Site and Project planning for hurricane resilience

ENGENSUS has provided risk consulting to the following selected clients:

• Louisiana Farm Bureau Insurance
• Chevron / MMI, Inc.
• Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
• Louisiana Nursing Home Association