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7. Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 108-113

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... The Pane! on the Assessment of Wind Engineering Issues in the United States concludes that the key to implementing these recommendations is the immediate establishment of a National Wind Science and Engineering Program.
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From page 109...
... NATURE OF WIND Key Needs I To improve the verification of, and the data base for, extreme wind events, including interdisciplinary quick-response assessments of damage from ground and aerial surveys, and to maintain a quality publication on storm data, including reasons for F-scale assignment to a given event.
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... 5. Conduct research on building structures to develop efficient frame and ciadd~ng systems to resist wind Toads while decreasing constructed cost.
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... at the local level, including effective enforcement of these measures through insurance incentives or other methods; conduct research into government and business recovery planning to identifier policies and institutions that discourage future mitigation efforts such as retrofitting, land-use planning, and building code enforcement.
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... 6. Establish a w~nd-engineering information center for archiving pertinent materials dealing with all aspects of wind engineering, including laboratoryand full-scale data, damage assessment information, and software; develop, using the latest technology, knowledge-based systems for real-time problem solving related to meteorological predictions of extreme winds, risk, and damage assessment and decision making for hurricane evaluation.
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... 2. Pursue joint international wind research efforts (e.g., wind charactenzation and structural response)
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