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Hurricane Sandy Restoration Efforts

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Hurricane Sandy

An Uncertain Future in Construction and Restoration Following Sandy

How homes and businesses are built or restored following Sandy is largely based on predictions for an uncertain future.

The first piece of advice Donald Watson has for construction and design professionals tasked with rebuilding homes and businesses along the Jersey Shore destroyed by Hurricane Sandy is “run like hell.” If that’s not a viable option, the architect who wrote the book on flood mitigation, literally, said, consider climate science, plan for the worst, and design for resiliency.  There’s a new reality property owners along New Jersey’s coasts need to account for, one carried in with the surging tide from Sandy. The planet’s climate is changing and how we build to account for it needs to change, too.      At Belmar Fishing Club, spared from Sandy, miraculously, perhaps, save for its fishing pier, architects, engineers and builders gathered for a…

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John Haugh

11:55 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013

I am a Crane and Rigging company based right in Brick, NJ and We will be Jacking, Moving, and Driving Foundation Piles in all of Ocean County. Our name is J. Haugh Cranes. Please reach out to us at 732-606-6166 or email us at JHAUGHCRANES@gmail.com. We have the proper equipment, jacks, rigging, and experience to get the job done right   more ›

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