Jenn Largesse

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Marketplace All-in-One · Building Tomorrow: A Special Look at the Future of Housing · 21 Feb 2026 podcast

Roy Wright is the president and CEO of IBHS.

The six-story facility feels less like a laboratory and more like a Hollywood soundstage for blockbuster movies.

Inside, engineers position massive fans capable of generating 130-mile-per-hour winds directly at whatever they're about to test.

We destroy all these buildings, literally burn them down or shoot them with hail or throw a Category 3 hurricane at them so that we can figure out how to make them better.

That's Anne Cope, the chief engineer for IBHS.

Their ability to test full-scale homes really changes what researchers can see and understand.

We can recreate hurricanes, driving rain.

We can manufacture hail and shoot the hail at the buildings.

We recreate wildfire conditions.

We have ember generators that create this ember flow that you see in real wildfire events so that we can study how things start and how to prevent the level of devastation that we have seen in the past.

What researchers are watching isn't just the storm, it's the house itself.

How every part of the structure reacts once the wind hits.

How do those small shingles flutter?

What about the vinyl siding that's on the side?

How does the wind move around the corner and get up into the attic vent and then into the attic?

To understand wildfire risk, researchers look closely at the smallest moments.

how fire actually reaches a house and what happens when it does.

We have this series of smokers that you might have in a barbecue that creates all of the small burning embers that then attack the home.

And then we can figure out how do we prevent those embers from igniting the houses.

We literally light buildings on fire and destroy them all the way down to the ground in the name of science so that we can study how bad is it if your neighbor's house is burning 10, 15, 20 feet away.

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