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Exponent Webinar:
Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Nuclear Facilities

Natural hazards can have severe impacts on industrial sites such as electrical power generating facilities, resulting in significant property damage and associated business interruption losses. For this reason, knowledge-based risk assessments are vital to enable owners and operators of such facilities to make informed decisions regarding insurance coverage and development of mitigation programs and emergency response plans. This seminar will focus on the assessment and mitigation of risk associated with extreme wind events like hurricanes, including associated ocean storm-surge issues. It is specifically designed for risk managers, finance directors, insurance managers, government affairs executives, design professionals, and asset managers for utility companies with fixed assets exposed to hurricanes along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastlines.

Topics include:

• Probabilistic determination of the hazard for a site; for example, what wind speed can one expect at a site for a particular category hurricane. Hazards include extreme winds associated with a hurricane or tornado, hurricane storm surge, riverine flooding, and wind-borne debris.
• Development of vulnerability and fragility functions to quantify risk to physical assets (property and contents) at a site.
• Quantification of business interruption risk at a site or to a network resulting from physical damage to assets.
• Quantification of total losses, including determination of Average Annual Loss or Probable Maximum Loss.
• Retrofit of physical assets to reduce potential losses based on cost/benefit analyses.

Speakers:

James R. (Bob) Bailey, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Senior Managing Engineer and Houston Office Director
bbailey@exponent.com
(832) 325-5712

Dr. Bailey is a licensed Professional Engineer and Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. During the past 28 years, Dr. Bailey has served as a technical consultant, researcher, and project manager for insurance companies, private industry, universities, and government. As a Senior Managing Engineer in Exponent's Buildings and Structures practice, he is experienced in areas related to wind engineering, construction materials, solid mechanics, dynamics, numerical analysis, structural analysis and design, and materials testing. He has conducted numerous hurricane risk assessments of industrial facilities for companies and governmental agencies such as the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, NASA, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical, and Devon Energy. Dr. Bailey also has extensive experience working with FEMA under the Public Assistance Program following Tropical Storm Allison (2001-2004), Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana (2005), and Hurricane Rita in Texas (2005-2006).

Morgan Griffith, P.E.
Managing Engineer
mgriffith@exponent.com
(650) 688-6936

Mr. Griffith specializes in the areas of non-linear structural analysis, performance-based design and assessment of structures, earthquake engineering, and soil-structure interaction. He has performed analyses of structures under extreme loading conditions including those imposed by seismic, wind, flood and snow loads. Mr. Griffith has assessed damage to structures due to earthquake, wind, fire, ground settlement, and material degradation such as wood decay and steel corrosion. He has experience in the design and analysis of wood, steel, and concrete structures as well as in geotechnical investigations for offshore foundation design.

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There is no charge for this webinar.