Jane Embury looks at high wind loading. The US city of New Orleans has once again been in the eye of a storm. This time it was Hurricane Ida, bringing 150mph (240km/h) winds. While there was significant damage, the city has new flood defences. Those were constructed after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,800 people in 2005. […]
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Glass in the wind
Jane Embury looks at wind loading and glazing systems. We’ve recently seen the chaos that bad weather can bring. Storm Christoph was just the latest named storm to hit the UK. It caused flooding around a factory producing a crucial Covid-19 vaccine in north Wales. It also led to some 2,000 properties in the north […]
The eye of Laura
Jane Embury looks at high wind loading. Last week, Hurricane Laura battered the coast of Louisiana, with wind speeds of up to 150mph. It was one of the strongest storms to ever hit the US Gulf Coast, killing fourteen people in Louisiana and Texas. In Haiti, which was earlier badly hit, at least 31 people […]
A picture of Dorian
Tim Kempster, our managing director, looks at Hurricane Dorian and the impact hurricanes have had on modern glazing systems. Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, recently hit the Bahamas, before also making landfall in the USA. It generated winds of up to 220 mph and storm surges of some 23 feet. The death toll is […]
Wrightstyle meets the family from hell
By Tim Kempster, managing director The catastrophe that has visited the Caribbean and parts of the eastern seaboard of the USA has been appalling to watch. There have been 13 named tropical storms this year, and the hurricane season doesn’t end until November. Of those, eight have been hurricanes and four of them were major […]
