Jenn Largesse

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

What does that mean as we plan our neighborhoods?

What they learn here doesn't stay in the lab.

In many cases, it can change how homes are built and how people prepare before a storm.

Specific changes that have come out of our research here at the lab, we've had a direct impact on the test standards for vinyl siding, on the pressure loads that are within the building codes.

Direct correlation, research right into the code.

We figured out closing all the interior doors actually makes a difference.

The question at IBHS isn't what they know about safer building.

It's how to get more communities to put that knowledge into practice.

Here in the United States, we have some of the best building codes.

And so the mission is that we can use the safety information that we have to protect more of our homes, more of our businesses, more of our towns, more of our communities, because we have the knowledge.

We have to use the knowledge.

This isn't about creating fear or retreating from the world.

It's about agency.

The good news, we know what choices to make.

The pieces are out there and consumers can choose.

It can feel overwhelming.

You are not powerless.

When you're ready to take a step, do one thing at a time.

We've been looking at what homes are made of, which materials hold up and which ones fail under pressure.

But materials alone really don't determine how many homes actually get built.

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