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Home Wreckers: Crash-Testing Buildings With Manufactured Disaster

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Gale-force winds, torrential rains, wildfires… Anne Cope has the power to unleash biblical plagues. “We crash-test buildings against Mother Nature’s fury,” says Cope, research director of the Institute for Business & Home Safety’s new $40 million facility

in Chester County, South Carolina. It’s the site of a six-story, half-acre lab that’s so big you could build nine houses inside it—and then destroy them. The insurance companies funding the facility hope the data it uncovers will save lives (and save them a bundle). Here’s how they manufacture disaster.

Authors: Eric Smillie

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