Planning to punish structures with rain, hail, wind and fire

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Abstract
An IBHS $40 million building materials and assemblies test facility in Chester county, South Carolina is designed to attack full-scale test structures with the swirling winds and rains of hurricanes, the pounding hail of severe thunderstorms, or the wind-driven embers of wildfires.

Date
6/2010

Author(s)
Tom Sawyer

Page(s)
20

Source
Energy Design Update / Aspen Publishers

Keyword(s)
rain; hail; wind; fire; IBHS test facility

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