Researchers from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), in collaboration with the California Building Industry Association (CBIA), will conduct a live wildfire demonstration on June 10, 2025 to kick off CBIA’s annual Pacific Coast Builders Conference (PCBC 2025). Attendees will see in real time how a system of science-based mitigations, including using noncombustible building materials and maintaining a noncombustible five-foot buffer around a home, also known as Zone 0, can help reduce risk of ignition at the parcel level, a key component to community-level resilience and preventing urban conflagration events like those recently experienced in Los Angeles County....

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To open the program, we’ll hear from California State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant, who leads one of the largest, most advanced fire prevention agencies in the world. Chief Berlant will share updates on CAL FIRE’s efforts to create safer, more resilient communities, rooted in collaboration with industry, scientists, researchers, and local community groups....

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The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is an independent, nonprofit, scientific research organization helping to find real-world solutions to safety risks. In this session, one of their senior experts will share detailed findings on wildfire mitigation techniques in the planning, design and construction of neighborhoods—including a case study of the nation's first certified Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood, built by KB Home....

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Analysis of recent disaster fires shows that five ingredients are necessary for a fire to transition from vegetative wildfire to an urban disaster with city-scale losses: sustained strong winds, rapid fire spread through vegetation, structures that lack defensible space and home hardening at points of entry, delayed or overtaxed firefighting response, and tightly-spaced and contiguous structural fuels. In this session, former Fire Chief Dave Winnacker will share critical factors necessary to slow the spread of wildfire, and how the design and construction of new wildfire adapted master planned communities can serve to create non-burnable buffers that are protected from wildfire... Read More

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Wildfire recovery and restoration is a massively complex process involving myriad public and private entities. This session will take you inside the rebuilding of Town of Paradise, Sonoma County, Santa Cruz County, and Maui County (Lahaina and Kula), among other examples, from cleanup and restoration of infrastructure. 4LEAF is the industry’s leader in this scope and has built a reputation of a collaborative approach with the design and general contracting communities. Through engaging in community activities, 4LEAF partners with all stakeholders in coordination of plan review, permit issuance, and inspections related to the minimum requirements of the Building Codes, including... Read More

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