


Tue, Feb 18
|on Zoom
Rockville Science Cafe Lecture Series
Can We Design Buildings to Resist Tornadoes? with Dr. Marc Levitan
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
on Zoom
About the event
All are welcome to join us for the Rockville Science Cafe lecture series on Zoom.
Sign up for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6EkEBwBJRTy0aKDF-68-9w#/registration
This month's topic: Conventional wisdom has been that the only safe place to be in a tornado is underground. However, recent decades have brought significant advances in our understanding of tornadoes, their effects on buildings, and engineering design and construction techniques to withstand Mother Nature’s most powerful storms. This presentation will explore how tornadoes are different from all other windstorms and the effects of those differences on buildings. Design of tornado shelters and safe rooms to provide life-safety protection from the most intense twisters will be explored, along with new building code requirements for tornado-resistant design of schools, hospitals, and other critical facilities.
Our speaker: Dr. Marc L. Levitan has been actively engaged in wind, hurricane, and tornado engineering research, practice, education for 30 years, His is…