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Flood Resilience: Designing for Recovery
March 25, 2026
Flood resilience design helps buildings recover quickly after flooding by protecting critical systems, reducing failure points, and planning for future climate risk.

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Structural Damage to Concrete & CMU Foundations
March 12, 2026
After the 2025 Eaton Fire in California, many foundations remained standing but were structurally compromised. This forensic case study explains how wildfire heat can affect concrete and CMU systems.

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Risks of Hydrogen and Lithium-Ion Battery Discharge
March 05, 2026
As EVs, BESS and hydrogen systems move into everyday buildings, energy storage risks are evolving. Performance-based design helps quantify hazards and engineer controls that reflect real-world conditions.

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IEEE Magazine: Lithium-Ion Batteries and EV Hazard Mitigation
March 02, 2026
In the April 2026 issue of IEEE Energy Sustainability Magazine, Thornton Tomasetti experts Pawel Woelke, Juan Londono, Peter Johnson, and Ivan Boguslavskyi examine lithium-ion battery hazards associated with electric vehicles and energy storage systems, including thermal runaway, fire and explosive risks, and strategies for mitigating these hazards in the built environment.

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IEEE Magazine: Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
March 01, 2026
In the March 2026 issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine, Thornton Tomasetti experts Elisa Paone and Tyler Crown examine lithium-ion battery fires, thermal runaway and failure mechanisms, and the forensic investigation methods used to understand their causes.