Dutch company Cubicco has created a flat-pack, modular, prefabricated, hurricane-proof home that can be built for less than $200,000. And it could soon come to the Caribbean and Florida.

Research shows that human-caused climate change is warming ocean waters, which is fueling stronger and more intense ...

How To Build Hurricane-Proof Cities In the age of climate change, the only way to protect the American coastal metropolis is to rethink it entirely. By Vann R. Newkirk II ...

They couldn’t sleep. A hurricane was lashing their brand-new house with a torrent of wind and rain. Deborah Rodriguez and her husband were miles away, snuggled up in a hotel bed, but they could ...

How to build a hurricane-proof house: LSU's LaHouse is a resource for wind- and flood-resistant building design. Susan Langenhennig; Jul 23, 2013 Jul 23, 2013; 3 min to read.

Climate change threatens to make storms more severe everywhere. But the greatest danger from hurricanes still exists in the Southeast, particularly Florida, the hub of hurricane-resistant building.

Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S. Determining the right level of winds to design for is ...

Building a hurricane-proof home may cost you a pretty penny (Deltec says its homes cost between “about $200-325 per square foot”), but it’s something people like Chapman-Henderson advocate ...

Couple Build Hurricane Resistant Home, Film How It Fared Against Helene. Published Oct 01, 2024 at 12:16 PM EDT. By . Maria Azzurra Volpe is a Newsweek Life & Trends reporter based in London, U.K.

In 2022, Dave Blancett, 72, and his wife Maria, 71, were living in Cape Coral, Florida, when Hurricane Ian hit. "We had storm surge. We lost our roof. We lost our pool cage," Maria tells CNBC Make ...