Architects and Engineers Professional Development Program
Architects and Engineers Professional Development Program : "In recognition of the greater need for preparedness to meet the full spectrum of disasters - natural as well as nuclear - DCPA initiated a broader program during fiscal year 1973. A new professional development course titled Multi-Protection Design was developed and pilot-tested during the year, with a total of more than 600 architects and engineers in attendance. These courses emphasized slanting techniques to be used during the design phase in new construction or in the remodeling of existing structures at little or no additional cost to the building owner. Application of these techniques could result in lifesaving shelters to protect people from the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes, as well as from the effects of nuclear attack?. To provide architects, engineers, and others with technical information on environmental hazards and natural disasters as well as the effects of nuclear weapons, new technical reports were developed and disseminated. New buildings providing protection against such hazards as vandalism, noise or pollution, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, as well as fallout radiation, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) were illustrated and described in various technical publications to show architects and their consulting engineers how protection against these hazards can be accomplished at little cost". (DCPA, Foresight, Annual Report FY73, 1974, 16)
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