HURRIPLAN in Post-Sandy South NJ

Dean Sakamoto, Don Watson and Dennis Hwang deliver HURRIPLAN: Resilient Building Design For Coastal Communities to state and local officials, planning and design professionals in Tuckerton, New Jersey. This two-day event is being held at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve with over forty participants on January 8-9. Sakamoto developed HURRIPLAN, a FEMA certified training program for the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Since 2012, HURRIPLAN has been offered to hurricane-prone communities nation-wide. The seaside towns of Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor were significantly impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Don Watson is pictured (above) discussing hurricane flood hazards. Group photo of participants (below).

Photos by: Dennis Hwang

For more info on HURRIPLAN see https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/catalog/9