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Formed in 1971 as the National committee forward Property Insurance and based in Boston, the Institute Business and place of abode Safety took its current name in 1997 The institute is now in Tampa, Fla., where its head-quarters was built to liken the shape of a hurricane, unimpaired with an eye in the middle. It also helps as a hurricane shelter for employee

Harvey Ryland, who came to IBHS in 1996 after serving as agent director of the Federal urgency Management Agency, said the institute's primary ends are to improve the bottom line of members and to build and maintain a