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Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business

COURSE NO: S04-025
PDH CREDIT: 4
COURSE PROVIDER: Gilbert Gedeon, P.E.
Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business
Course Highlights

This online engineering CPD course provides an overview of the importance of safe rooms, as well as their design and construction process.

 

Every year, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme windstorms cause injury, death, and property damage worth billions of dollars in the United States. Even so, more and more people build homes in tornado- and hurricane-prone areas, possibly putting themselves into the path of such storms. Having a safe room for your home or small business can help provide near-absolute protection for you and your family or employees from injury or death caused by the dangerous forces of extreme winds.

 

This 4 CPD online course is applicable to structural engineers, design professionals, homeowners and other technical personnel who are interested in learning more about designing and building safe rooms.

Learning Objectives

This continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Understanding the various natural hazards faced in the United States
  • Learning how to determine whether a safe room is needed or not
  • Knowing the different design options for safe rooms
  • Familiarizing with the construction of safe rooms
  • Learning about the various testimonies of people who have benefited from safe rooms
Course Document
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business”, which is based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) document “Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business”, publication number FEMA P-320.
To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
BUILDING A SAFE ROOM FOR YOUR HOME OR SMALL BUSINESS (7.0 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions to earn 4 CPD credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

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