Storm Shelter Design and Review

LBYD has experience designing community “safe rooms” within schools and other structures to withstand loading from tornadoes.  These safe rooms are designed according to ICC 500-2008, ICC / NSSA Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters, which was adopted in 2010 by the State of Alabama to require safe rooms for all new K-12 school construction.  LBYD has also performed numerous peer reviews of the community safe room designs of other engineers, which is required by the ICC 500-2008 Code for typical school safe rooms.   LBYD is a member of NSSA, the National Storm Shelter Association, which collaborated with the International Code Council to issue standard safe room shelter requirements to resist hurricane and tornado loadings.