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2022 Disaster Response & Relief
As part of our mission to support the communities where our employees and partners live and work, we’re committed to providing technical and financial aid to those affected by human-made and natural disasters. Immediately after Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, we mobilized engineers, architects and other specialists from our offices across the United States to help communities in Florida and up the Eastern Seaboard evaluate the damage and begin to recover.
We conducted rapid-response assessments of the safety of more than 50 single-family homes and over 200 commercial, residential and municipal properties. Our involvement in these communities, educating property owners on how federal and local laws affect their plans for rebuilding, is ongoing.
In addition to our forensics work, we provide financial support for on-the-ground disaster-relief efforts. Hurricane Ian devastated neighborhoods, impacting our Florida colleagues and communities. The firm matched staff donations to Hurricane Ian relief, supporting the American Red Cross relief fund. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, we launched an ongoing corporate-giving program with the Red Cross, which matches employee donations to general disaster relief up to a preset maximum.
In 2022, we also matched employee donations to Direct Relief, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, giving $17,000 (for a combined firm/employee donation of $34,000) to support aid to Ukrainian refugees.