{"id":989,"date":"2009-08-09T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2009-08-09T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:55:32","slug":"hurricane-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane rated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new building near where I work is almost completed. A local law firm has erected what I think is the most original building on island.\u00a0 The look is debatable, but I think it looks good ; very modern.<\/p>\n<p>The center part of the building will be an atrium that will provide almost all offices with natural light. On the roof, apparently there are solar panels that will provide hot water to the building.\u00a0 Also, note the windows ; they are small for two reasons.\u00a0 1. Hurricanes. 2. Less blazing heat from the sun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-990\" title=\"img_7603\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7603.jpg\" alt=\"img_7603\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7603.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7603-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see that it has been &#8220;built up&#8221; from the street level and standing on concrete pillars.\u00a0 The building starts at 18ft above sea level.\u00a0 It may not seem like much, but for storm surge, which is one of the biggest risks in George Town, it should be plenty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-991\" title=\"img_7604\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7604.jpg\" alt=\"img_7604\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7604.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7604-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The building has been designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane ; the worst it can get!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I noted before the building was painted white. On top of the concrete, a 2-3 inch think Styrofoam &#8220;paneling&#8221; was put over the entire building.\u00a0 Once the styrofoam on, then some sort of concrete paint was put on top.\u00a0 For insulation from the heat, this is apparently very efficient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-992\" title=\"img_7606\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7606.jpg\" alt=\"img_7606\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7606.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7606-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One final note. I saw this tree close to where we live ; wow!\u00a0 So much orange.\u00a0\u00a0 No idea what it is though. Anyone out there know?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-994\" title=\"img_7662-1\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7662-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_7662-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7662-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_7662-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new building near where I work is almost completed. A local law firm has erected what I think is the most original building on island.\u00a0 The look is debatable, but I think it looks good ; very modern. The center part of the building will be an atrium that will provide almost all offices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}