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| URS to provide services for FEMA URS Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide technical and research services to the agency's Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration's Risk Reduction Division, Building Science Branch. The Building Science Branch is a technical services bureau that develops and produces technical guidance and tools focused on fostering a disaster-resilient built environment. Under the terms of the contract, URS will be responsible for providing a team of experts for field assessments or investigations, research, guidance development, and architectural and engineering coordination and analysis. The work will involve performing problem-focused studies and post-disaster forensic engineering investigations to help identify damage trends which may be occurring, observe the causes of disaster damages and recommend how these damages or trends can be avoided in the future. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |