CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES
Ian Giammanco, Ph.D., the managing director of Standards & Data Analytics and lead research meteorologist at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) said, that while some areas grab headlines for being more prone to devastating wildfires and hurricanes, every region in the United States is vulnerable to some kind of natural disaster—be it caused by fire, wind, flood, hail or earthquake.
IBHS is the only lab in the world that
can test full-scale one- and two-story residential and commercial buildings in
a controlled, repeatable fashion for highly realistic windstorms, wind-driven
rain, hailstorms and wildfire ember storms.
Giammanco said in many places, building codes have not kept up with the hazards homeowners face.
While the cost in dollars can wipe out savings and put people in debt who had paid off a home that now must be razed and rebuilt—the human toll is higher.
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