- Author
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Building Official and Code Administrator
- Title
- Oklahoma City: People Pulling Together.
- Journal
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Building Official and Code Administrator,
Vol. 29,
No. 5,
34-36,
September/October 1995
- Keywords
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planning
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disasters
- Identifiers
- rebuilding; redeveloping; recovering from the damage; taking preventive measures; wrapping columns with steel to reinforce and protect against "pancaking"; painting windows with shatter-resistant coating and installing heavy curtains or blinds to stop flying glass; installing video cameras and public address systems; using battery-powered lighting and phosphorescent paint that glows in the dark; issuing magnetically encoded photo-identification cards that restrict employees to necessary floors; erecting concrete planters or other large buffers to stop vehicles from ramming the building; poisitioning future buildings further away from the street; moving outdoor parking away from the building