Natural Disaster Mitigation - Undergraduate Program

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Snapshots of Two Buildings Side by Side Taken After Hurricane Ivan '04

Western’s Three Little Pigs Research Project at The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes is a full-scale testing facility to study structural, building envelope and moisture-related issues in houses. It will permit, for the first time anywhere, the application of realistically simulated time and spatially varying wind loads to full-scale houses in a controlled manner up to failure.

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