IBHS Research Center Grand Opening

The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) hosted the grand opening of its multi-risk building science research center in Chester County, S.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 19th. The state-of-the-art, multi-hazard applied research and training facility will significantly advance building science by enabling researchers to more fully and accurately evaluate various residential and commercial construction materials and systems. The facility is entirely funded by the property insurance industry.
When fully operational, the IBHS Research Center will be able to simulate Category 1, 2 and 3 hurricane-force winds, extra-tropical windstorms, thunderstorm frontal winds, wildfire ember showers, wind-driven rain and hailstorms within its 21,000 square-foot test chamber. These capabilities largely derive from a massive array of 105, 5-1/2 ft. diameter electric fans that can be accelerated up to 140 mph. The laboratory's 750,000 gallon water tank will supply the test chamber's 200 nozzles, capable of creating "rain" at a rate of up to 8 inches per hour. In addition, hailstones, burning embers and different types of "debris" will be introduced into the wind stream via a series of special ducts and other mechanical systems as part of a variety of tests.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• IBHS
• multi-hazard
• research
• center
• hurricane
• wind
• damage
• studies

[lockplace]

They watched 3 pigs and wolf very carefully abot 300 times and here we go: conclusion

[HowdenNA]

Wow! Those fans have a lot of power. This is a great demonstration and I look forward to the housing improvements that come in result of the testing. This was a GREAT idea IBHS!



[slapcompany]

Success for Managers is: Respect. To be paid to think, not just to comply. To be trusted.