Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm CT
Cost: FREE
Credits: 1 PDH or 1 AIA CES LU/HSW
Presenters: Jeffrey Ryan, RA (FEMA) and Glenn Overcash, PE (AECOM / FEMA Contractor)

FEMA’s Building Science Division has recently completed updates of FEMA’s safe room resources including publications, FEMA P-361, Safe Rooms for Tornadoes and Hurricanes: Guidance for Community and Residential Safe Rooms (2024), and FEMA P-320, Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home (2024).This session will introduce participants to significant changes in requirements for FEMA-funded safe rooms resulting from updates to both ICC 500, ICC/NSSA Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters (2023) and the FEMA Funding Criteria covered in FEMA P-361 (2024). The session will also preview the updated FEMA P-320 residential safe room design plans and latest safe room guidance included in the updated fact sheets.

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This webinar is part of the 2025 Sustainable Structures Webinar Series. PCI Chapter Sponsors include: PCI of Illinois and Wisconsin, PCI Midwest, and PCI Mountain States.