DISASTER MANAGEMENT EXPERTS AT MARCH 8 BOMA LONG ISLAND PANEL

MELVILLE, NY (March 2, 2007) — Three experts on disaster management will speak exclusively at an upcoming Building Owners and Managers Association-Long Island members-only roundtable.

The experts, Mark P. Ellis, S.E., Vice President, Risk Assessment of Thornton Tomasetti; Fletcher A. MacGregor, P.E., Managing Director, Specialty Global Practice Leader Natural Hazards & Emergency Management at Marsh Risk Consulting, and Donald Kinnear, Assistant Vice President and Executive General Adjuster of McLarens Young International, will speak to BOMA-LI members on Thursday, March 8, at 8:30 a.m. The event will be held in the auditorium of 68 S. Service Rd., Melville. There is no charge for BOMA members.

BOMA-LI members will receive exclusive and critically important information to help them become better prepared for the possibility of disasters on Long Island. This presentation answers crucial questions including:
• What threats do we really face here on the Island?
• What should building owners and managers do in order to be prepared?
• If a disaster occurs, what to do next?

Among other things, the program will focus on hurricane preparedness. Hurricane Insurance has become expensive and difficult to obtain in high risk parts of the country. Long Island has not yet seen the same challenges as in Florida and the Gulf Coast, but this may change as time goes on. The discussion will touch on:
• Building Vulnerability to Wind Damage
• Hurricane Loss Analysis and Insurance
• Hurricane Mitigation Measures
• Insurance Modeling in Long Island
• Mitigation Program in Florida
The second part of the presentation will summarize current approaches to analyzing and mitigating blast risk, the current state of terrorism loss modeling, and insurance.

The presentation will conclude with suggestions on steps to take immediately after an incident.

BOMA Long Island, part of BOMA International, the leading advocacy group for the commercial real estate industry. BOMA Long Island encourages and fosters the highest standards of professionalism in Long Island real estate through education and recognition of excellence. For information about BOMA Long Island go to: http://www.bomali.org or email: tatumsalice@yahoo.com.

For more information about BOMA-LI members and reservations, contact Tatum Salice at tatumsalice@yahoo.com
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