“Whether it's against hurricane hail or wildfire, we crash test structures here. We're convinced that there's a point where you can prevent the loss.”
-Roy Wright, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety
Roy is convinced that the continuing cycle of human suffering that strikes families and communities in the wake of severe weather can be broken.
IBHS facilitates research and outreach efforts to deliver strategies to build safer and stronger homes and businesses. Their on-site state-of-the-art research facility is used to reproduce wind speeds, gusts and conditions found in an extreme wildfire. In this facility, the team tests and figures out what are the key elements that keep a home from igniting and burning.
Roy Wright and the Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) advocate for the prevention of home loss through practical measures applicable to every home.
IBHS on Defensible Space
Roy Wright on Wildfire Mitigation Methods
IBHS Wildfire Mitigation Demonstration
“There is nothing else that I know of on this planet where we can actually go in and do full scale experiments with burning embers.”
-Dr. Jack Cohen