The Institue for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is a nonprofit organization, supported by the insurance industry. IBHS conducts studies, public and professional educational activities, and data gathering to gain greater understanding of the effects of losses that occur as a result of natural disasters, and determine how best to reduce them. IBHS envisions a nation that positions and builds its businesses and homes to keep its citizens and their property safe from natural disasters.

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Fortified For Safer Living

Fortified...for safer living® is a National program designed to help bring the value of a practical, yet strongly built and disaster resistant home into America's communities. It is well known that the home-buying public prefers a home that is built by a "good" builder. But, every builder will tell a prospective buyer that "my house is a strong house". Fortified...for safer living® program offers "peace of mind" to discerning buyers with the type of practical construction features that are known to really make a difference at a time when it's most needed — before disaster strikes.

The Fortified program specifies construction, design and landscaping guidelines to enable homes to increase their resistance to the following hazards that are most likely to occur in the area: Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfire.