New York Reassessing Building Code to Limit Storm Damage - NYTimes.com

Going beyond the New York City building standards saved the new municipal recycling plant from flood damage, the Times reports. - gwc
New York Reassessing Building Code to Limit Storm Damage - NYTimes.com: 
by Kirsten Luce

"In the countdown to Hurricane Sandy last month, construction workers on a teeming pier in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, rushed to strap down materials and move forklifts and excavators into half-built structures to shield them from the tempest to come.When a 12-foot storm surge swept through nearby streets and parking lots on Oct. 29, the raised recycling plant did not flood.But the real storm preparations had been accomplished six years earlier, when Sims Metal Management approved a design for a state-of-the-art city recycling plant that is rising at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal."

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