11/18/26 - Flood Mitigation Techniques and Procedure, 2026 Edition

Flooding remains the number one cause of property damage, year after year, within the US. Mitigating against flood damage includes flood proofing and elevating thereby reducing and hopefully eliminating the impact resulting from flooding. This training will introduce and discuss the primary methods in which flooding causes damage to buildings. This training will then introduce and discuss techniques and procedures that can be implemented on new and existing buildings aimed at mitigating flood damage to include wet and dry floodproofing. Specifically, the discussion will introduce the minimum requirements found within the 2024 International Building Code® (IBC®) and the IBC-referenced 2024 ASCE/SEI 24-24 Guidance on Structural Safety in Flood Areas. This training will then review techniques and procedures found within FEMA’s P-936 Floodproofing Non-Residential Buildings and FEMA’s Technical Bulletins addressing wet floodproofing. An overview of the key techniques along with examples to show their application will be presented. The objective of this training is to introduce and discuss techniques and procedures that can be implemented on new and existing buildings to strengthen main wind force resisting systems and components and cladding to mitigate wind damage.