November 2008
by Aaron Hoover
New Tests Coming for Roof Coverings
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Breakline - New Tests Coming for Roof Coverings? Giant simulator will better show how roofs hold up in storms? Aaron Hoover T oday's most powerful hurricane simulators allow wind engineers to put an entire installed window or soffit assembly to the test against hurricane-force wind and wind-driven rain. But a simulator in the planning stages may dwarf today's models. The Tampa-based Institute of Business and Home Safety (IBHS), an insurance-industry-funded building safety group, is in the final stages of negotiations on a site for a $25 million, 30,000-horsepower machine that can power winds at 140 miles per hour through a
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