It is the beginning of the season for hurricanes in the Atlantic, and after last season’s volume of hurricanes people are left wondering what will happen this year and whether or not people are prepared. Last year’s hurricane season marked the seventh (7th) most active since 1851, with six (6) major hurricanes in the Atlantic. Field Ready responded to the hurricanes in the USVI, which you can read more about here. The number of hurricanes last year was staggering, with devast

Field Ready's Dara Dotz recently attended and spoke at the SolidWorks World 2018 (4-7 Feb) conference in Los Angeles. As an avid user of Solidworks, Dotz was keen to speak at the event and share how this program has enabled many of our lifesaving designs to come to fruition. Her aim was to not only demonstrate the work that Field Ready is doing in disaster zones, but to share the wider possibilities for disaster relief. By using modern technology, we can get people things fas

Hurricane Irma has been the most powerful and destructive hurricane recorded in the Atlantic. The destruction began in the Caribbean when Irma’s winds were a Category 5, the strongest measure on the hurricane wind scale. The losses from Irma are still being quantified, however we know that lives, property and critical infrastructure have been lost in over ten countries. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced. In many places, power has been lost. With the loss of powe