National Building Safety Month, 2011

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 8672 of May 9, 2011

National Building Safety Month, 2011

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Building safety is a critical component of our homeland
security, our personal and public safety, the
protection of property, and our economic well-being.
While disasters have had devastating and heartbreaking
effects in our country and around the world, modern
building safety standards and fire prevention codes
help us withstand, mitigate, and rapidly recover from
hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and
floods.

It is our collective responsibility as a Nation--
nonprofit organizations and the public and private
sectors--to implement effective standards and codes
that sustain safe and resilient structures. We need
innovation and partnerships at all levels of society to
develop transformative breakthroughs in building
materials and construction techniques that strengthen
the integrity of our homes, workplaces, and commercial
facilities.

Building safety and fire prevention officials,
architects, engineers, design professionals, builders,
and others in the construction industry work every day
to ensure the sound construction of buildings and the
safety of our citizens. Their efforts to construct or
retrofit buildings that utilize state-of-the-art
safety, energy efficiency, and fire prevention
standards are important to our national resilience and
our ability to compete in the 21st-century economy.

As a resilient Nation, we must continue to do
everything in our power to enhance our ability to
withstand and rapidly recover from natural and manmade
disasters, disruptions, and emergencies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim May 2011 as National
Building Safety Month. I encourage citizens, government
agencies, private businesses, nonprofit organizations,
and other interested groups to join in activities that
will increase awareness of building safety, and I
further urge Americans to learn more about how they can
contribute to building safety at home and in their
communities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand
eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.