Herbert Saffir

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Herbert Saffir (born 29 March 1917 in New York City), is a Civil engineer in Florida, United States. Saffir graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1940 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.[1] As of 2005, Saffir was the principal of Saffir Engineering[2] in Coral Gables, Florida.

Saffir worked for Dade County, Florida as an assistant county engineer, and worked on updating the county building code. In 1969, while working on a study of windstorm damage on low-cost housing commissioned by the United Nations, Saffir developed a scale to measure the intensity of hurricanes. Robert Simpson, then-director of the National Hurricane Center, added in the damage done by storm surge, resulting in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.alumni.gatech.edu/news/ttopics/win95/hallfame.html
  2. ^ http://www.enr.construction.com/opinions/lettersUpdates/archives/051121.asp
  3. ^ http://www.novalynx.com/saffir-interview.html Q&A with Herbert Saffir - June 2001 interview from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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