Jenn Largesse
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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Marketplace All-in-One · Building Tomorrow: A Special Look at the Future of Housing · 21 Feb 2026
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But it's a rich, natural, immersive experience that when I finished, I felt, this is so beautiful, I want to give it to other people.
These are CLT panels.
They are the structure for the house.
And all of the wall panels are going up.
They're three-ply.
You can see that side cut of the panel up there where you have one piece of wood and then another going perpendicular and then another one going the other way.
And that's the structural strength.
It's interesting you mention this, David.
This is a piece of timber that was from a tree that had been killed by a beetle that took over so much of the Western Canadian forest stock.
And they killed the tree by infesting in it.
And as they die, they secrete a certain fungus that stains the tree, and it turns the wood a slight blue.
And so the history of this panel, the history of this forest is embodied in this four-inch wide panel that's facing my dining room, as you might notice.
It's not exactly covered up.
It's not a fancy place.
It's a warm, hospitable place.
In the building trade, they call that resiliency.
How do we build homes that actually hold up against whatever Mother Nature can throw at them?
That's the question being tested at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, or IBHS, on 90 acres in Richburg, South Carolina.
The IBHS runs one of the most extreme building research facilities in the world.
Their engineers build full-scale houses and push them to the breaking point.
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